On 1/9/2011 11:49 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
Hello everyone, long time no see,
This is probably not a Python problem, but rather a regular expressions
problem.
I want, for the sake of arguments, to match strings comprising any
number of occurrences of 'spa', each interspersed by any number of
occu
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:49:35 +, Tom Anderson wrote:
>
> Any thoughts on what i should do? Do i have to bite the bullet and apply
> some cleverness in my pattern generation to avoid situations like this?
>
This sort of works:
import re
f = open("test.txt")
p = re.compile("(spam*)*")
for line
On 09/01/2011 17:49, Ian wrote:
I think you want to anchor your list, or anything will match. Perhaps
My bad - this is better
re.compile('^((spa)*(m)*)+$')
search finds match in 'spa', 'spaspaspa', 'spammmspa', '' and 'mmm'
search fails on 'spats', 'mats' and others.
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On 09/01/2011 16:49, Tom Anderson wrote:
Hello everyone, long time no see,
This is probably not a Python problem, but rather a regular
expressions problem.
I want, for the sake of arguments, to match strings comprising any
number of occurrences of 'spa', each interspersed by any number of
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