two ideoms at one blow: line-reading and regexp-matching

[Duncan Booth]

"Jason Orendorff" <jason at jorendorff.com> wrote in 
news:mailman.1014233014.12475.python-list at python.org:

> Gustavo Cordova wrote:
>> >>> class WrapRX:
>> ... [...]
> 
> This is standard in Python 2.2.
> 
>  >>> import re
>  >>> rx_vowels = re.compile(r"[aeiou]+", re.S)
>  >>> some_string = "This is a beautiful string."
>  >>> for match in rx_vowels.finditer(some_string):
>   ...     print "Found vowel: %r" % match.group(0)
>   ...
> 
Pity it isn't documented. Neither is the scanner method.
I have reported this on sourceforge.

-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?