In article <mailman.3998.1248989346.8015.python-l...@python.org>, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >Nobody wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:29:09 -0700, rurpy wrote: >> >>>> regex = re.compile(r'[\w\-\.]+\.(?:us|au|de)') >>> You might also want to consider that some country >>> codes such as "co" for Columbia might match more than >>> you want, for example: >>> >>> re.match(r'[\w\-\.]+\.(?:us|au|de|co)', 'foo.boo.com') >>> >>> will match. >> >> ... so put \b at the end, i.e.: >> >> regex = re.compile(r'[\w\-\.]+\.(?:us|au|de)\b') >> >It would still match "www.bbc.co.uk", so you might need: > >regex = re.compile(r'[\w\-\.]+\.(?:us|au|de)\b(?!\.\b)')
If it's a string containing just the candidate domain, you can do regex = re.compile(r'[\w\-\.]+\.(?:us|au|de)$') -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Many customs in this life persist because they ease friction and promote productivity as a result of universal agreement, and whether they are precisely the optimal choices is much less important." --Henry Spencer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
