Hi, folks I'm still relatively new to the language, so I hope this question isn't too naive. It's a general question for anyone who might have some insights on Regular Expressions.
According to Mark Pilgrim, author of "Dive Into Python", "If the regular expression matches, the method will return a Match object, which Python considers to be true" (Section 16.3, Example 16.8). So, I think "great", and write a function that returns a match object using re's. So i make some testcases. The test where there is no match, and the return from the function is None, passes. The test where there is a match, fails on the assertion: AssertionError: <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00AFB9C0> != True But, shouldn't it accept that as True, based on the info. in Dive Into Python? I suspect I am being naive in my interpretation of things, so if anyone has any feedback on how I might get this to work so my function just returns either True (if a match) or False (if no match), I welcome it. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Rennie Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto at Mississauga 3359 Mississauga Rd. N. Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6 Ph: 905-828-5452 Fax: 905-828-3792 www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3rennie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
