re.Scanner - match python dot notation

Christian K. ckkart at hoc.net
Mon Feb 7 13:53:04 EST 2011


Am 07.02.11 17:47, schrieb MRAB:
> On 07/02/2011 15:34, Christian K. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to find a regexp to be used with re.Scanner that matches the
>> 'package.module.member' syntax. More specifically I want to parse
>> function strings like
>>
>> numpy.sin(x*a+w)
>>
>> and sort out variables/constants.
>>
>> This one here works using re.match but fails when used with Scanner (due
>> to the grouping () I guess).
>>
>> r'((?=.*[a-zA-Z])(?=.+[\.]).+)[\(\+\-]+'
>>
>> I highly appreciate your comments.
>>
>> Regards, christian
>>
> I'm not sure about your regex, but I'd probably use this:
>
> r'[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*(?:\.[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)*'

Perfect, thanks. I changed the last * to a + so that the string must 
contain a '.' to match.

Christian




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