[Python-ideas] Proposed convenience functions for re module

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:17:46 -0300, Greg Ewing
<greg.ewing-F+z8Qja7x9Xokq/tPzqvJg at public.gmane.org> escribió:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> def multimatch(s, *patterns):
>>     """Do a re.match on s using each pattern in patterns,     returning  
>> the first one to succeed, or None if they all fail."""
>>     for pattern in patterns:
>>         m = re.match(pattern, s)
>>         if m: return m
>
> How are you supposed to tell which one matched?

m.re contains the matching expression

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Gabriel Genellina