[Tutor] Searching list items.

[Chris Hengge]

Not sure if you were challenging me to think, or asking me, but I was
wanting to "line" to be printed... as in the string from the list. What I
got with re was what I'm assuming was a memory address.

On 10/17/06, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>
>
> > I remove those lines, but I was trying to use
> > for line in contents:
> >   result = re.search("something", line)
> >   print result
>
> 'result' here is going to either be None, as you've seen, or a "match"
> object.  We have several options available to use once we have a
> match.  Take a look at a few of the methods in here:
>
>      http://www.python.org/doc/lib/match-objects.html
>
> Printing a match object itself won't be too informative.  What would you
> like to show up if there is some match?
>
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