[Tutor] advice on idiomatic python and re module question

[Andrew Fant]

Thanks, Bob.

I had a feeling I was doing something stupid like calling the wrong method. 
that will learn me to try and be more clever than I am.  Either that or to 
not think in Fortran.

Andy

--On Monday, May 17, 2004 14:38:00 -0600 Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> 
wrote:

> At 12:34 PM 5/17/2004, Andrew Fant wrote:
>> First, I cannot seem to compile and use more than one regexp in a
>> program:
>
> You can have as many regexps as you like.
>
>> if I use:
>>
>> pattern1=re.compile('^#')
>> pattern2=re.compile('eth0')
>>
>> to define the patterns, I can use:
>>
>> if pattern1.match(line):
>>
>> to check for a comment line succesfully,but
>>
>> if pattern2.match(line):
>
> Note that match starts at the beginning of the line. Hence (1) the ^ is
> superfluous and (2) 'eth0' must be at the beginning of the line to match.
> If 'eth0' is not at the beginning, the pattern should be '.*eth0'. Or you
> could use search instead of match, which looks thru the line for the
> pattern.
>
> [snip]
>
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