catastrophic regexp, help!

[TheSaint]

On 12:20, mercoledì 11 giugno 2008 cirfu wrote:

> patzln = re.compile("(\w* *)* zlatan ibrahimovic (\w* *)*")

I think that I shouldn't put anything around the phrase you want to find.

patzln = re.compile(r'.*(zlatan ibrahimovic){1,1}.*')

this should do it for you. Unless searching into a special position.

In the other hand, I'd like to understand how I can substitute a variable
inside a pattern.

if I do:
import os, re
EOL= os.linesep

re_EOL= re.compile(r'[?P<EOL>\s+2\t]'))

for line in open('myfile','r').readlines():
   print re_EOL.sub('',line)

Will it remove tabs, spaces and end-of-line ?
It's doing but no EOL :(

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