On 6/11/2010 2:16 AM, MRAB wrote:
On 06/11/2010 01:25, Paul Hemans wrote:
I need to extract the quoted text from :
_("get this")
The following works:
re.compile( "_\(['\"]([^'\"]+)['\"]\)" )
However, I don't want to match if there is A-Z or a-z or 0-9 or _
immediately preceding the "_" so I have tried:
"[^0-9a-zA-Z]*_\(['\"]([^'\"]+)['\"]\)"
"[^\w]{0,1}_\(['\"]([^'\"]+)['\"]\)"
"\W*_\(['\"]([^'\"]+)['\"]\)"
to match against:
skip this text _("get this")
Use a negative lookbehind:
re.compile(r'''(?<!\w)_\(['"]([^'"]+)['"]\)''')
Slightly improved version that doesn't allow mixed quotes, eg. __("fred') :
re.compile(r'''(?<!\w)_\((['"])([^'"]+)\1\)''')
The starting quote is now captured as group 1, and has to terminate the
string too (use of \1).
Cheers, JB
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