Martin Dennett (Gmail) wrote: >Would that also be applicable to, for example, addresses after the @ >where more than one option exists? I'm thinking of "ms*.hinet.net" - >I've got a lot of banned members where the "*" is a number, and I don't >fancy having to block ms1.hinet.net, ms2.hinet.net, ms3.hinet.net etc.
You don't have quite the right syntax for regular expressions (they're not wildcards). See <http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html>. The above example can be coded as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The start of the string (^) followed by any character (.) zero or more times (*) followed by @ followed by zero or more of anything (.*) followed by a literal . (\.) followed by hinet followed by a literal . (\.) followed by net followed by anything. This would match [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and many others. It could also be [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ms[0-9]\.hinet\.net$ The start of the string followed by at at least one (+) non @ character ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) followed by @ms followed by a digit ([0-9]) followed by .hinet.net followed by the end of the string. It could also be many other regexps depending on how tight or loose you want to be. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
