On Tuesday 28 September 2010, it occurred to Florian Kaufmann to exclaim: > >From the documentation: > 7.2.4. Regular Expression Objects, search(string[, pos[, endpos]]) > ... the '^' pattern character matches at the real beginning of the > string and at positions just after a newline, but not necessarily at > the index where the search is to start.... > > But I'd like to do just that. In Emacs regexps, I think the closest > equivalent would be \=. Then I could do something like that, and also > find directly adjacent matches > > reo = re.compile( r'(\=|...)...' ); > while True > mo = reo.search(text,pos) > if not mo: break > ... > > Flo
You could prefix your regexp with r'(.*?)' to create a match of stuff that is between the start of search and the start of the first thing you're interested in. (untested...) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
