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Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> Does something like this help?
> 
>>>> re.sub(r'([^,?])(([,?]))', r'\1 \2', 'Hello, how are you?')
> 'Hello , how are you ?'
 
actually, it does (after adding dot, exclamation mark and so on). Had to
re-read the code twice before getting it, though. I had never worked with
the '\#' (where # is a number) before. Thanks!

> Not really general-purpose, but it works on the example you gave and maybe
> that's as complex as you need...

Yeah it is. Let's hope it runs relatively fast. I don't mind waiting a
little, but it has to run over about 6000 documents :-)

    Woohoo, time to run some experiments!

        Yours

            Bas

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