If you read John's message carefully (which is the output of
"help(re.search)") you can see the difference between "re.search" and
"re.match". The former looks for a regex anywhere in the given string, the
latter requires the string to begin with the given regex.
Joel
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:2
Thank you Gary, Cédric, Christian. When *would *one use "is"?
Cédric... the problem I was having was purely an issue of comparison "if
file.tell() is 0L" was returning False. Strangely enough, "if file.tell() is
0" returns True in the right cases. I assume this is related to the None
case?
On
Hi Evan,
The @ is a "decorator", knowing this should help you search for a better
explanation than I could give...
Have a look here to start:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2006-September/048978.html
Joel
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HI,
>
> When
Hello,
I'm trying to clarify what exactly the behaviour of the is statement is (or
should be). Naturally, this has been nearly impossible to google for, even
using quotations... It is my impression that the is statement should be
equivalent to "==", at least on some level. However, this equivalenc
