Hi, I'm seeking help with a fairly simple string processing task. I've simplified what I'm actually doing into a hypothetical equivalent. Suppose I want to take a word in Spanish, and divide it into individual letters. The problem is that there are a few 2-character combinations that are considered single letters in Spanish - for example 'ch', 'll', 'rr'. Suppose I have:
alphabet = ['a','b','c','ch','d','u','r','rr','o'] #this would include the whole alphabet but I shortened it here theword = 'churro' I would like to split the string 'churro' into a list containing: 'ch','u','rr','o' So at each letter I want to look ahead and see if it can be combined with the next letter to make a single 'letter' of the Spanish alphabet. I think this could be done with a regular expression passing the list called "alphabet" to re.match() for example, but I'm not sure how to use the contents of a whole list as a search string in a regular expression, or if it's even possible. My real application is a bit more complex than the Spanish alphabet so I'm looking for a fairly general solution. Thanks, Jed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
