Hi all, Ok I have a list
hosts = [ "poundcake.fqdn.com", "scorpion.fqdn.com", "loghost", "scorpian", "localhost", "lan", "lan.fpdn.com" ] Assumptions: scorpian.fqdn.com == scorpian lan == lan.fqdn.com I want pear this list down based on the following: 1. ignore loghost, localhost, timehost, mailhost 2. Use the first found name used reguardless if it is the fqdn or not So what you would get back out is this.. hosts = [ "poundcake.fqdn.com", "scorpion.fqdn.com", "lan" ] Now here is my code - and I have a problem with the splitting. I am really looking for a cool ( but understandable ) way to simplify this.. e =[] for host in hosts: sn = re.split( "\.", host) ig = 1 ignore = [ "localhost", "loghost", "timehost", "mailhost" ] for i in ignore: if i == sn[0]: ig = 0 if ig: print "%s not ignored" % sn[0] found = 0 for n in e: sm = re.split( "\.", n) print "checking %s to %s" % (sm[0], sn[0]) if sm[0] == sn[0]: print "match"; found = 1 if found == 0: print "appending %s " % host e.append(host) print e Which kicks out.. poundcake not ignored appending poundcake.nsc.com scorpion not ignored checking poundcake to scorpion appending scorpion.nsc.com scorpian not ignored checking poundcake to scorpian checking scorpion to scorpian appending scorpian lan not ignored checking poundcake to lan checking scorpion to lan checking scorpian to lan appending lan ['poundcake.fpdn.com', 'scorpion.fpdn.com', 'scorpian', 'lan'] Crap still wrong.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list