Matching Strings

[rshepard-at-appl-ecosys.com]

On 2007-02-10, James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Assuming item is "(u'ground water',)"
>
> import re
> item = re.compile(r"\(u'([^']*)',\)").search(item).group(1)

James,

  I solved the problem when some experimentation reminded me that 'item' is
a list index and not a string variable. by changing the line to,

	if item[0] == selName:

I get the matchs correctly.

  Now I need to extract the proper matching strings from the list of tuples,
and I'm working on that.

Many thanks,

Rich