On Sep 9, 12:42 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you may also want to do re.escape on all the words, to avoid surprises > when the choices contain special characters.
yes, thank you very much: import re def oneOf(s): alts = sorted(s.split(), reverse=True) alts = [re.escape(s) for s in alts] return "|".join(alts) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list