hi if i have a string like this
"ABCE-123456 ABC_DEF_Suggest(abc def ghi).txt" that needs to be passed to a python script and i wanted to get the words inside the brackets after i passed this string. I did a re something like thestring = sys.argv[1:] pat = re.compile(r".*\((.*)\)\.txt$") if pat.search(thestring): words = pat.search(thestring).group(1) but it doesn't return anything for words variable. When i specifically define the string inside the python script , it works thestring = "ABCE-123456 ABC_DEF_Suggest(abc def ghi).txt" I also tried str(thestring) but also did not work what is wrong with the argument passing? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
