Module RE, Have a couple questions

Marc Huffnagle mhuffnagle at knowtechnology.net
Tue Mar 1 10:52:18 EST 2005


Oops, made a mistake.

Marc Huffnagle wrote:
> Dasacc
> 
> There is a better (faster/easier) way to do it than using the re module, 
> the find method of the string class.
> 
> dasacc at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> (1) How do I perform a search for "word" and have it return every line
>> that this instance is found?
> 
> 
> [line for line in document if line.find('a') != -1]
> 
>>
>> (2) How do I perform a search for "word" and "wordtwo" at the same time
>> to return every line these instances are found so that the order in
>> which these lines are in are left intact.
> 
> 
> [line for line in document if (line.find('word') != -1 \
>     and line.find('wordtwo'))]

This should have been:

[line for line in document if (line.find('word') != -1 \
	and line.find('wordtwo') != -1)]

> 
>>
>> If there's another standard module more suited for this let me know,
>> and no I dont want to use sed :)
>>
>> Thanks
>>



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