[Tutor] about regular expression

Steegness steegness@hotmail.com
Wed Mar 26 09:26:46 2003


In standard well-formed English, a full stop period is usually followed by
two spaces, whereas abbreviations are only followed by one.  Perhaps this
will serve for the purpose for the regex.

Sean


> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:07:06 -0800 (PST)
> From: Abdirizak abdi <a_abdi406@yahoo.com>
> To: tutor@python.org
> Subject: [Tutor] about  regular expression
>
> Hi everyone
>
> Can any one suggest a regular _expression that can distinguish between two
fullstop(e.g : he got married last weeek.)  and abbreviated word (e.g Al.
Brown), I have tried  some but  I couldn't get them right. please give an
example each of these two.
>
> thanks in advance