Re: Newbie RE question

2006-09-25 Thread Tim Chase
1) Please don't top-post...it makes it hard to reply in context 2) You may want to "reply to all" so that the mailing list gets CC'd...there are lots of smart folks on the list, and by replying only to me, you limit your options to the meager extents of my knowledge. >>> I would like to search

Re: Newbie RE question

2006-09-22 Thread bearophileHUGS
T: > I meant to say: Search for any character in r'/\:*?"<>|' in a string You don't need a RE to solve such problem. There are many ways to solve it, this is one of the simpler (Python 2.4+): >>> chars = set(r'/\:*?"<>|') >>> s1 = "is this a sample string?" >>> bool( set(s1) & chars ) True >>> s

Re: Newbie RE question

2006-09-22 Thread Tim Chase
> I would like to search for any of the strings in r'/\:*?"<>|' in a > string using RE module. Can someone tell me how? use the search() method of the regexp object. r = re.compile(r'[/\:*?"<>|]') results = r.search(a_string) or, if you're interested in the first location: r.finditer(target).n

Re: Newbie RE question

2006-09-22 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2006-09-22, T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I meant to say: Search for any character in r'/\:*?"<>|' in a > string Sorry Ford Prefect puts The Python Documentation down on his satchel and lies down to sleep. He whispers, "I don't want to spoil anything, but you'll never get anywhere using

Re: Newbie RE question

2006-09-22 Thread T
I meant to say: Search for any character in r'/\:*?"<>|' in a string Sorry T wrote: > I would like to search for any of the strings in r'/\:*?"<>|' in a > string using RE module. Can someone tell me how? > > Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list