On 9/25/15 7:57 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > That's still much more aggressive than what I was trying to say. I > actually want to ban precisely all variants of the one address > > joeb...@gmail.com > > (and about a dozen other addresses) that include embedded periods > anywhere and the suffix, but not other gmail addresses. grep finds > them with > > \.\?j\.\?o\.\?e\.\?b\.\?l\.\?o\.\?w\.\ ?+.*@gmail \.com > > (I might want \.* instead of \.\?) but adding > > ^\.\?j\.\?o\.\?e\.\?b\.\?l\.\?o\.\?w\.\ ?+.*@gmail\.com > > to the ban list doesn't seem to block them.
Because in a python RE, \? is a literal '?', not a '0 or 1 of repeat'. For grep you need the \? to give ? its special meaning. a regexp for egrep or grep -E will be closer to what you want for python. You want ^\.?j\.?o\.?e\.?b\.?l\.?o\.?w xxx \+.*@gmail\.com where I'm unsure about the ' xxx ' part because I don't understand what '\ ?' is supposed to do? Or instead of the above and to account for multiple '.' maybe ^\.*j\.*o\.*e\.*b\.*l\.*o\.*w\.*\+.*@gmail\.com which says zero or more dots followed by j followed by zero or more dots followed by o, etc., followed by w followed by zero or more dots followed by + followed by anything followed by @gmail.com. See <https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax>. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
