[Tutor] Iterating through a list of replacement regex patterns

[David Hutto]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:51 PM, David Hutto <smokefloat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:05 PM, David Hutto <smokefloat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just added +'*' to select in re.search(select+'*', str(readfile[:])),
>> and it now shows the same in both.
>>
>> But if you have any input on modifications let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>
> Still a problem. When I use the re.search(select+'*', str(readfile))
> the asterisk  for re matches it to any character, so if there are any
> letters of the word it matches.
>
> I would like to match the exact word being sent not just any of the
> characters, and the only way is with the exact word nothing following it,
> but substituting the string parameter with the word even str(word), it
> always shows negative for a match, search or findall.
>
> So does this have something to do with the extra len on the str(wordfromlist)
> as stated in the first email, and if so how do I remove whats there.
>
> If not, what is the, probably small, thing I'm not doing to the item being
> used as the re.search/findall parameter?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>

Fixed by rstrip() on item being iterated from dictionary file.

re.findall(str.rstrip(select), str(readfile)