Craig Ringer wrote:
> My first thought would be to express your 'A and B' regex as:
>
> (A.*B)|(B.*A)
>
> with whatever padding, etc, is necessary. You can even substitute in the
> sub-regex for A and B to avoid writing them out twice.
That won't work because of overlaps. Consider
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Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Craig Ringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 08:52, Ross La Haye wrote:
> >> How can an and operator be emulated in regular expressions in
Python?
>
> Regular expressions are designed to define and detect repetition and
"Craig Ringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 08:52, Ross La Haye wrote:
>> How can an and operator be emulated in regular expressions in Python?
Regular expressions are designed to define and detect repetition and
alternatives. These are ea
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 08:52, Ross La Haye wrote:
> How can an and operator be emulated in regular expressions in Python?
> Specifically, I want to return a match on a string if and only if 2 or more
> substrings all appear in the string. For example, for a string s = 'Jones
> John' and substrings
