"Mark Lawrence" <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:mailman.3588.1248355389.8015.python-l...@python.org... > scriptlear...@gmail.com wrote: >> For example, I have a string "#a=valuea;b=valueb;c=valuec;", and I >> will like to take out the values (valuea, valueb, and valuec). How do >> I do that in Python? The group method will only return the matched >> part. Thanks. >> >> p = re.compile('#a=*;b=*;c=*;') >> m = p.match(line) >> if m: >> print m.group(), > > IMHO a regex for this is overkill, a combination of string methods such as > split and find should suffice. > > Regards. >
For the OP, it can be done with regex by grouping: p = re.compile(r'#a=(*);b=(*);c=(*);') m = p.match(line) if m: print m.group(1), m.group(1) has valuea in it, etc. But this may not be the best way, but it is reasonably terse. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list