On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 1:17:56 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sunday 08 January 2017 15:33, CM wrote:
>
> > On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 7:59:01 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> [...]
> >> Start by printing repr(candidate_text) and see what you really have.
> >
> > Yes, that did
On Sunday 08 January 2017 15:33, CM wrote:
> On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 7:59:01 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
[...]
>> Start by printing repr(candidate_text) and see what you really have.
>
> Yes, that did it. The repr of that one was, in fact:
>
> u'match /r'
Are you sure it is a forwar
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 3:31 PM, CM wrote:
> On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 6:42:25 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> What happens if you print the repr of each string? Or, if one of them
>> truly is a literal, just print the repr of the one you got from
>> win32com.
>>
>> ChrisA
>
> Yes, that
On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 7:59:01 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 08:40 am, CM wrote:
>
> > So what's going on here? Why isn't a string with the content 'match' equal
> > to another string with the content 'match'?
>
> You don't know that the content is 'match'. All you
On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 6:42:25 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> What happens if you print the repr of each string? Or, if one of them
> truly is a literal, just print the repr of the one you got from
> win32com.
>
> ChrisA
Yes, that did it. The repr of that one was, in fact:
u'match /
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 08:40 am, CM wrote:
> So what's going on here? Why isn't a string with the content 'match' equal
> to another string with the content 'match'?
You don't know that the content is 'match'. All you know is that when
printed, it *looks like* 'match'.
Hint:
s = 'match '
print 'mat
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 8:40 AM, CM wrote:
>
> This is candidate_text: match
>
>
> False
>
> and, of course, doesn't enter that "do something" loop since apparently
> candidate_text != 'match'...even though it seems like it does.
>
> So what's going on here? Why isn't a string with the content '
This is probably very simple but I get confused when it comes to encoding and
am generally rusty. (What follows is in Python 2.7; I know.).
I'm scraping a Word docx using win32com and am just trying to do some matching
rules to find certain paragraphs that, for testing purposes, equal the word
