Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > could ildg a écrit : > >> Thank you. >> But what should I do if there are more than one hello and I only want >> to extract what's before the first "hello". > > > Read The Fine Manual ?-) > > >> For example, the raw >> string is "hi, how are you? hello I'm fine, thank you hello. that's it >> hello", I want to extract all the stuff before the first hello? > > > re.findall(r'^(.*)hello', your_string_full_of_hellos)
Nice try, but it needs a little refinement to do what the OP asked for: >>> import re >>> h = "hi g'day hello hello hello" >>> re.findall(r'^(.*)hello', h) ["hi g'day hello hello "] >>> re.findall(r'^(.*?)hello', h) ["hi g'day "] >>> re.findall(r'^(.*?)hello', h)[0] "hi g'day " -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
