On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:34:12 -0500, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@hotmail.invalid> >wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:42:37 -0600, Tim Chase >> <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: >> >> >On 2015-11-02 20:09, Seymore4Head wrote: >> >> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end of >> >> the line is an asterisk >> > >> >Why use a regular expression? >> > >> > if line[-1] == '*': >> > yep(line) >> > else: >> > nope(line) >> > >> >-tkc >> > >> > >> Because that is the part of Python I am trying to learn at the moment. >> > >Are we to infer that you were aware of doing the if line[-1] == '*': ... >, but just wanted to learn how to do the same thing with regex? Or that you >heard about regexes and thought that would be the way to solve your puzzle? > >> Thanks >> -- >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> Yes I knew that -1 represents the end character. It is not a question of trying to accomplish anything. I was just practicing with regex and wasn't sure how to express a * since it was one of the instructions. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
