Slurp the entire file into a string and pick out the fields you need. Sent from my iPhone 4.
On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Brandon Harris <brandon.har...@reelfx.com> wrote: > I'm trying to read in and parse an ascii type file that contains information > that can span several lines. > Example: > > createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_globalSmooth"; > setAttr ".tan" 9; > setAttr -s 4 ".ktv[0:3]" 101 0 163 0 169 0 201 0; > setAttr -s 4 ".kit[3]" 10; > setAttr -s 4 ".kot[3]" 10; > createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_res"; > setAttr ".tan" 9; > setAttr ".ktv[0]" 103 0; > setAttr ".kot[0]" 5; > createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_faceRig"; > setAttr ".tan" 9; > setAttr ".ktv[0]" 103 0; > setAttr ".kot[0]" 5; > > I'm wanting to grab the information out in chunks, so > > createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_faceRig"; > setAttr ".tan" 9; > setAttr ".ktv[0]" 103 0; > setAttr ".kot[0]" 5; > > would be what my regex would grab. > I'm currently only able to grab out the first line and part of the second > line, but no more. > regex is as follows > > my_regexp = re.compile("createNode\ animCurve.*\n[\t*setAttr.*\n]*") > > I've run several variations of this, but none return me all of the expected > information. > > Is there something special that needs to be done to have the regexp grab any > number of the setAttr lines without specification? > > Brandon L. Harris > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list