Re: Best Practice Virtual Environment

2024-10-08 Thread Left Right via Python-list
Hi. The advice here is from a perspective of someone who does this professionally, for large, highly loaded systems. This doesn't necessarily apply to your case / not to the full extent. > Debian (or even Python3 itself) doesn't allow to pip install required > packages system wide, so I have to

Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread Michael F. Stemper via Python-list
On 07/10/2024 08.56, Stefan Ram wrote: "Michael F. Stemper" wrote or quoted: if not re.search("\\sout\{", line): So, if you're not down to slap an "r" before your string literals, you're going to end up doubling down on every backslash. Never heard of that before, but it did the trick

Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread Karsten Hilbert via Python-list
Am Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 08:07:04PM +0100 schrieb MRAB via Python-list: > >unwanted_tex = '\sout{' > >if unwanted_tex not in line: do_something_with_libreoffice() > > > That should be: > > unwanted_tex = r'\sout{' Hm. Python 3.11.2 (main, Aug 26 2024, 07:20:54) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux

Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread Alan Bawden via Python-list
Karsten Hilbert writes: Python 3.11.2 (main, Aug 26 2024, 07:20:54) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> tex = '\sout{' >>> tex '\\sout{' >>> Am I missing something ?

Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread MRAB via Python-list
On 2024-10-08 21:59, Alan Bawden via Python-list wrote: Karsten Hilbert writes: Python 3.11.2 (main, Aug 26 2024, 07:20:54) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> tex = '\sout{' >>> tex

Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread Jon Ribbens via Python-list
On 2024-10-07, Stefan Ram wrote: > "Michael F. Stemper" wrote or quoted: >>For now, I'll use the "r" in a cargo-cult fashion, until I decide which >>syntax I prefer. (Is there any reason that one or the other is preferable?) > > I'd totally go with the r-style notation! > > It's got one bumme

Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread Karsten Hilbert via Python-list
Am Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 08:35:32AM -0500 schrieb Michael F. Stemper via Python-list: > I'm trying to discard lines that include the string "\sout{" (which is TeX, > for > those who are curious. I have tried: > if not re.search("\sout{", line): > if not re.search("\sout\{", line): > if not

Signing off

2024-10-08 Thread AVI GROSS via Python-list
Just a final brief note. I am leaving the python community so don't worry that anything happened to me. I have a disagreement with the direction some people are taking with the python community that is my issue and it that probably will not bother most people. I have lots of other interests inc

Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread Michael F. Stemper via Python-list
I'm trying to discard lines that include the string "\sout{" (which is TeX, for those who are curious. I have tried: if not re.search("\sout{", line): if not re.search("\sout\{", line): if not re.search("\\sout{", line): if not re.search("\\sout\{", line): But the lines with that string k

Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread Pieter van Oostrum via Python-list
r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > "Michael F. Stemper" wrote or quoted: > > path = r'C:\Windows\example' + '\\' > You could even omit the '+'. Then the concatenation is done at parsing time instead of run time. -- Pieter van Oostrum www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DA

Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread MRAB via Python-list
On 2024-10-08 19:30, Karsten Hilbert via Python-list wrote: Am Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 08:35:32AM -0500 schrieb Michael F. Stemper via Python-list: I'm trying to discard lines that include the string "\sout{" (which is TeX, for those who are curious. I have tried: if not re.search("\sout{", lin

Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()

2024-10-08 Thread MRAB via Python-list
On 2024-10-07 14:35, Michael F. Stemper via Python-list wrote: I'm trying to discard lines that include the string "\sout{" (which is TeX, for those who are curious. I have tried: if not re.search("\sout{", line): if not re.search("\sout\{", line): if not re.search("\\sout{", line):