On Sunday, 12 April 2015 21:21:48 UTC-4, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 12Apr2015 17:55, Pippo <adm2303.2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Sunday, 12 April 2015 20:46:19 UTC-4, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >> It looks like it should, unless you have mangled your regular expression.
> [...]
> >> Also note that you can print the regexp's .pattern attribute:
> >> print(constraint.pattern)
> >> as a check that what was compiled is what you intended to compile.
> [...]
> >This is the complete code:
> [...]
>
> Thank you.
>
> >while j < len(content):
> > constraint = re.compile(r'(#C\[\w*\])')
> > result = constraint.search(content[j])
>
> I notice you seem to have incorporated MRAB's suggestion that the
> re.MULTILINE
> is a parameter for re.compile, not re.search, and also my suggestion that you
> don't need it at all.
>
> > text.append(result)
> > print(constraint.pattern)
> > print(text)
> > print(repr(content[j]))
> > j = j+1
> >
> >This is the result I get:
> >(#C\[\w*\])
> >[<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x10292ee40>]
> >'#D{#C[Health] #P[Information] - \n'
> >(#C\[\w*\])
> >[<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x10292ee40>, None]
>
> I think you've missed the first line, but the above output looks correct to
> me
> at this point.
>
> You may want to modify your code to say something like this:
>
> if result is not None:
> text.append(result)
>
> so that you only accrue matches in your text list.
>
> Then there are assorted things that can be done to improve the code in
> general,
> but could you see if you actual bugs are now fixed?
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
>
> A program in conformance will not tend to stay in conformance, because even if
> it doesn't change, the standard will. - Norman Diamond <diam...@jit.dec.com>
Thanks Cameron, I added the if statement but I still get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/sepidehghanavati/Desktop/Programs/python/Python3.3/Main
Modules/testpattern.py", line 24, in <module>
print(result.group(0))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
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