[Tutor] Matching multiple regular expressions

Tzu-Ming Chern T.Chern at unibas.ch
Wed Jan 12 23:05:04 CET 2005


Hi Python Tutors,

Is there a more elegant solution to matching multiple regular expressions? 

An example would be:

lista = ['hello','goodbye','bubblegum']  # lista would contain my regular
expressions I want to match

My file would look something like this:

line1: blah blah aldkfslfjlajf hello
line2: blah blah dkajfldjfjkdsfalj zippo
line3: blah blah lkdsjalkfjkj bubblegum
line4: blah blah skdjflsdjlkj ditto

What I want to do is to only print out those lines that don't contain
those patterns included in lista. So that would be lines 2 and 4. 

Any suggestions?

cheers,
tzuming





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