regex help

[Cédric Lucantis]

Le Monday 30 June 2008 16:53:54 Support Desk, vous avez écrit :
> Hello,
>    I am working on a web-app, that querys long distance numbers from a
> database of call logs. I am trying to put together a regex that matches any
> number that does not start with the following. Basically any number that
> does'nt start with:
>
>
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> 281
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> 713
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> 832
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>
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> or
>
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> 1281
>
> 1713
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> 1832
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>
>
>
> is long distance any, help would be appreciated.

sounds like str.startswith() is enough for your needs:

if not number.startswith(('281', '713', '832', ...)) :
	...

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Cédric Lucantis