Re: RegExp: "wontmatch"-function

2008-10-13 Thread william tanksley
On Oct 13, 9:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for a function which, given a regexp re and  and a string > str, returns whether re won't match any string starting with str. (so > it would always return False if str is "" or if str itself matches re > -- but that are only the easy cases)

Re: RegExp: "wontmatch"-function

2008-10-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2008-10-13T16:40:07Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: def nomatch(value): return not(value == '' or pattern.match(value)) -- Kirk Strauser The Day Companies -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RegExp: "wontmatch"-function

2008-10-13 Thread pjacobi . de
Dear All, I'm looking for a function which, given a regexp re and and a string str, returns whether re won't match any string starting with str. (so it would always return False if str is "" or if str itself matches re -- but that are only the easy cases). I have the vague feeling that the inter