[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On May 21, 4:09 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> >> And wastes time. regular expressions can become expensive to match -
>> >> doing it twice might be hurtful.
>>
>> >> Diez
>>
>> > match = (my_re1.match(line) or my_re2.match(line)) or
>> > my_re3.match(line)
>>
>> How do you know *which* of the three has matched then?
>>
>> Diez
> 
> Depends if the OP wants to know that...

Well, in *general* one wants that. So as a general-purpose solution this is
certainly *not* the way to go.

Diez
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