re.search over a list

[Pat]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Pat a écrit :
>> While I can use a for loop looking for a match on a list, I was 
>> wondering if there was a one-liner way.
>>
>> In particular, one of my RE's looks like this '^somestring$' so I 
>> can't just do this: re.search( '^somestring$', str( mylist ) )
>>
>> I'm not smart enough (total newbie) to code up a generator expression 
>> and I was wondering if I'm missing something obvious.
> 
> words = ['foo', 'bar', 'somestring', 'baaz']
> re.search(r"^somestring$", "\n".join(words), re.MULTILINE)
> 
> 
>> I love succinct but clearly understandable code.
> 
> separator.join(sequence_of_strings) is a very common python idiom, so 
> you can consider it as readable.
> 

That's excellent.  Exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you VERY much!