On Feb 20, 7:36 pm, Amit Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before I read the message: I screwed up. > > Let me write again > > >> x = re.compile("CL(?P<name1>[a-z]+)") > > # group name "name1" is attached to the match of lowercase string of > alphabet > # Now I have a dictionary saying {"name1", "iamgood"} > # I would like a function, that takes x and my dictionary and return > "CLiamgood" > # If my dictionary instead have {"name1", "123"}, it gives error on > processingit > # > # In general, I have reg-expression where every non-trivial match has > a group-name. I want to do the reverse of reg-exp match. The function > can take reg-exp and replace the group-matches from dictionary > # I hope, this make it clear.
If you want the string that matched the regex then you can use group(0) (or just group()): >>> x = re.compile("CL(?P<name1>[a-z]+)") >>> m = x.search("something CLiamgood!something else") >>> m.group() 'CLiamgood' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list