[Tutor] regexp: a bit lost

Gerard Flanagan grflanagan at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 07:50:25 CEST 2010


with coffee:



yes = """
v1 v2   5
2 someword7 3
""".splitlines()[1:]

no = """
word 2 3
1 2
""".splitlines()[1:]

import re

pattern = "(\w*\d\s+?)(\w*\d\s+?)(\d)$"
rx = re.compile(pattern)

for line in yes:
     m = rx.match(line)
     assert m
     print([part.rstrip() for part in m.groups()])

for line in no:
     m = rx.match(line)
     assert not m






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