Need help in Python regular expression

[meryl]

On Jun 11, 9:41 pm, "Mark Tolonen" <metolone+gm... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I have this regular expression
> > blockRE = re.compile(".*RenderBlock {\w+}")
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> > it works if my source is "RenderBlock {CENTER}".
>
> > But I want it to work with
> > 1. RenderTable {TABLE}
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> > So i change the regexp to re.compile(".*Render[Block|Table] {\w+}"),
> > but that breaks everything
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> > 2. RenderBlock (CENTER)
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> > So I change the regexp to re.compile(".*RenderBlock {|\(\w+}|\)"),
> > that also breaks everything
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> > Can you please tell me how to change my reg exp so that I can support
> > all 3 cases:
> > RenderTable {TABLE}
> > RenderBlock (CENTER)
> > RenderBlock {CENTER}
>
> [abcd] syntax matches a single character from the set.  Use non-grouping
> parentheses instead:
>
> -----------------------code----------------------
> import re
> pat = re.compile(r'Render(?:Block|Table) (?:\(\w+\)|{\w+})')
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> testdata = '''\
> RenderTable {TABLE}
> RenderBlock (CENTER)
> RenderBlock {CENTER}
> RenderTable {TABLE)      #shouldn't match
> '''
>
> print pat.findall(testdata)
> ---------------------------------------------------
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> Result:
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> ['RenderTable {TABLE}', 'RenderBlock (CENTER)', 'RenderBlock {CENTER}']
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> -Mark

Thanks for both of your help. How can i modify the RegExp so that
both
RenderTable {TABLE}
and
RenderTable {TABLE} [text with a-zA-Z=SPACE0-9]
will match

I try adding ".*" at the end , but it ends up just matching the second
one.

Thanks again.