Woops! Thanks for the correction. I was assuming greediness for some reason.
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Dylan Moreland wrote: > > > So I would try something like: > > > > pat = re.compile(r" (?:AND|OR|AND NOT) ") > > pat.split(string) > > footnote: this yields: > > ['Smith, R.', 'White', 'Blue, T.', 'Black', 'Red', 'NOT Green'] > > (the | operator picks the first (leftmost) alternative that results in an > overall match.) > > </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
