Efficiently test for positive re.match then use the result?
Robert Brewer
fumanchu at amor.org
Wed Mar 3 14:14:59 EST 2004
elmlish wrote:
> I'm currently befuddled as to how to efficiently test for a
> positive re.
> match then use the results of that match in a function.
>
> Mostly what I've seen people do is to first test for the
> match, and then
> try matching again to get the results. This would seem to be pretty
> inefficient to me.
> >>> alist = ['boo','hoo','choo']
> >>> [re.match('choo',line) for line in calist if
> re.match('choo',line)]
> [<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x11e218>]
What's wrong with:
alist = ['boo','hoo','choo']
for line in alist:
m = re.match('choo', line)
if m:
doSomethingWith(m.groups(0))
FuManChu
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