Re: Comparing strings - akin to Perl's "=~"

2008-05-06 Thread krumblebunk
On May 6, 2:23 pm, "A.T.Hofkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without a explicit Python value of what comes out of the sql query, I can only > guess. As example, assume the following data: > > f = { 1: ['Hostname', 'blabla', 'person', 'john'], > 2: ['MachineName', 'blabla', 'company',

Re: Comparing strings - akin to Perl's "=~"

2008-05-06 Thread A.T.Hofkamp
On 2008-05-06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello gurus, Hello fellow-guru, > I am grabbing the output from a SQL statement (using PyGreSQL 'pg' > module), and when it returns the result, I am pulling it out as such: > > try: > sc=pg.connect(dbname='mydb',host='dbhost',user=

Re: Comparing strings - akin to Perl's "=~"

2008-05-06 Thread Carsten Haese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for foo in sc.query(sql).dictresult(): <- this returns a dict of the result f=dict(foo) for k in f.iteritems() if k == '^Hostname': <-- need this sort of behaviour - match a partial string. print "%s" % f[3] <-- ..and i

Re: Comparing strings - akin to Perl's "=~"

2008-05-06 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello gurus, > > I am learning Python to take the place of Perl in my toolbox of bits > and bobs, and writing something pretty simple in theory, but having a > hard time in Python with it - I am using a 3rd party module, and I am > sure the etiquette of this channel sta

Comparing strings - akin to Perl's "=~"

2008-05-06 Thread krumblebunk
Hello gurus, I am learning Python to take the place of Perl in my toolbox of bits and bobs, and writing something pretty simple in theory, but having a hard time in Python with it - I am using a 3rd party module, and I am sure the etiquette of this channel states that this is pure Python questions