f*cking re module
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Mon Jul 4 04:10:15 EDT 2005
jwaixs wrote:
> arg... I've lost 1.5 hours of my precious time to try letting re work
> correcty. There's really not a single good re tutorial or documentation
> I could found! There are only reference, and if you don't know how a
> module work you won't learn it from a reference!
Then Google for regular expression tutorials, not regular expression
references.
>>>> import re
>>>> str = "blabla<python>Re modules sucks!</python>blabla"
>>>> re.search("(<python>)(/python>)", str).group()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
>
> the only thing I want are the number of places blabla, Re modules
> sucks! and blabla are.
Your question is still not clear. What you're searching for is
'<python></python>', which isn't there, so .search returns None, and so
you get that exception (.group takes an argument, anyway).
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