Q: re

[Kalle Svensson]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Hwanjo Yu wrote:

> Hi,

Hi!

[snip]
> >>> matchstr = re.compile(r".*homepage | .*~.*", re.IGNORECASE)
> >>> re.match(matchstr, "http://www.my.com/me/homepage")
> 
> In this case, this should return matchobject since it matches the
> "homepage", but it doesn't.
> What is wrong here ?

The regexp should be:
>>> matchstr = re.compile(r".*homepage|.*~.*", re.IGNORECASE)
>>> # No whitespace -----------------^^^
...
>>> matchstr.match("http://www.my.com/me/homepage")
<re.MatchObject instance at 8086328>

Your regexp tried to match ".*homepage " or " .*~.*", with the spaces.

HTH,
  Kalle
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