[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I am looking for python code that takes as input a list of strings > (most similar, > but not necessarily, and rather short: say not longer than 50 chars) > and that computes and outputs the python regular expression that > matches > these string values (not necessarily strictly, perhaps the code is able > to determine patterns, i.e. families of strings...).
This may be a very simple starting point: >>> import re >>> strings = ["foo", "bar", "$spam"] >>> strings2 = "|".join(re.escape(s) for s in strings) >>> strings2 'foo|bar|\\$spam' >>> finds = re.compile(strings2) But I don't know how well this may work with many longer strings. If that's not enoug we can think about more complex solutions. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
