[Tutor] Regular expression on python

[Alan Gauld]

On 13/04/15 19:42, Alan Gauld wrote:

>>          if lines.startswith("Input"):
>>              tp = lines.split("\t")
>>              print re.findall("Input\d",str(tp))
>
> Input is not followed by a number. You need a more powerful pattern.
> Which is why I recommend trying to solve it as far as possible
> without using regex.

I also just realised that you call split there then take the str() of 
the result. That means you are searching the string representation
of a list, which doesn't seem to make much sense?


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