[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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list