JerryB wrote: > I have a string like this: > > invalidStr = "192.168.*.1" > > I want to be sure I don't get a * followed by a number, i.e. I want > invalidStr to be invalid. So I do: > > numberAfterStar = re.compile(r'\*.*\d') > > Now, here's the fun: > > If I run: > if numberAfterStar.findall(invalidStr): > print "Found it with findall!" > > it prints, if I run: > > if numberAfterStar.match(invalidStr): > print "Found it with match!" > > it doesn't. > Why does findall finds a match it but match doesn't?
This might help: >>> numberAfterStar.findall(invalidStr) ['*.1'] >>> numberAfterStar.match(invalidStr) >>> numberAfterStar.search(invalidStr) <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00AF3DB0> Check the docs on match, specifically where it talks about when you should use search() instead... (http://docs.python.org/lib/re-objects.html) (By the way, thank you for the excellently crafted post. I wish everyone who asked questions here took the time to prepare as thoroughly and include the actual failing code, etc...) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
