On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:18 AM, John Posner <jjpos...@optimum.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:54:44 -0500, Dave McCormick <mackrac...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > But it is not what I am wanting. I first thought to make it look for a >> space but that would not work when a single character like "#" is to be >> colored if there is a "string" of them. Or if all of the characters between >> quotes are to be colored. >> > > Regular expressions are good at handling searches like: > > * all the characters between quotes > * the two-character string "do", but only if it's a complete word > > -John > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > I need another hint... Been doing some reading and playing and it looks like r'\bxxx\b' is what I need. But I can not figure out how to pass a variable between \b___\b If the word in question is between the "\b \b" and in the list then it works like I want it to. The below does not work. greenList_regexp = "|".join(greenList) for matchobj in re.finditer(r'\bgreenList_regexp\b', complete_text): start,end = matchobj.span() Thanks, Dave
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