Problem with REGEX in Python

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Peter Abel:
  [...]
> > "Martin P" <martin_p at despam.com> writes:
> > 
> > > p = re.compile('.*[pP][ython].*')
> > > f=file("aufgabe14.test")
> **Here f is a filepointer**
> 
> > > for currentline in f:
> **So this code can't work, because you can't iterate over a filepointer

Sure you can.

    $ cat foo.py
    # foo.py
    for line in file('foo.py'):
        print line,

    $ python foo.py
    # foo.py
    for line in file('foo.py'):
        print line,

Since Python 2.2, if memory serves.

  [...]
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Steven Taschuk                            staschuk at telusplanet.net
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