jwaixs wrote: > arg... I've lost 1.5 hours of my precious time to try letting re work > correcty. There's really not a single good re tutorial or documentation > I could found! There are only reference, and if you don't know how a > module work you won't learn it from a reference!
Then Google for regular expression tutorials, not regular expression references. >>>> import re >>>> str = "blabla<python>Re modules sucks!</python>blabla" >>>> re.search("(<python>)(/python>)", str).group() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' > > the only thing I want are the number of places blabla, Re modules > sucks! and blabla are. Your question is still not clear. What you're searching for is '<python></python>', which isn't there, so .search returns None, and so you get that exception (.group takes an argument, anyway). -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis With such a weapon I could boil the Earth to vapor. -- Chmeee -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list