Paddy wrote: > I have another use case. > If you want to match a comma separated list of words you end up writing > what constitutes a word twice, i.e: > r"\w+[,\w+]"
That matches one or more alphanum characters followed by exactly one comma, plus, or alphanum. I think you meant r'\w+(,\w+)*' or if you don't care where or how many commas there are r'[\w,]*' or if previous but has to start with alphanum r'\w[\w,]*' > As what constitues a word gets longer, you have to repeat a longer RE > fragment so the fact that it is a match of a comma separated list is > lost, e.g: > r"[a-zA-Z_]\w+[,[a-zA-Z_]\w+]" That's why god invented % interpolation. -- Edward Elliott UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) complangpython at eddeye dot net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
