YANRQ (yet another regex question)

[Michael George Lerner]

Mats Kindahl <matkin at iar.se> wrote:
> Mats Kindahl <matkin at iar.se> writes:

>> Michael George Lerner <mlerner at asteroids.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> writes:
>> 
>> > I wanted to match this:
>> > 
>> > (?P<foo>foo    | foo   |  foo  |   foo |    foo)
>> > 

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>> That's what I get for not reading the manual... :/

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>  
>      r = re.compile(r'(?P<foo>(?=.{7}$) *foo *$)')
>                                      ^        ^
>                                      !        !
>             notice missing dollars --+--------+

Cool! .. but still not quite what I wanted ..

And that's what *I* get for snipping information out when I post a
followup :/.  

In my original post, I mentioned that I wanted something like 
r'(?P<start>start)(?P<foo>  foo  )(?P<end>end)' i.e. other patterns 
on the same line before and after foo.

placing-?=-in-my-bag-of-regex-tricks-ly yours,

-michael