John Machin wrote: > >>> import re > >>> text = "(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))".lower() > # you seem to want downshifting ... > >>> re.split(r"\W+", text) > ['', 'word1', 'word2', 'word3', ''] > >>> > > Hmmm ... near, but not exactly what you want. We need to throw away > those empty strings, which will appear if you have non-word characters > at the ends of your text.
You can also avoid the empty strings at the end by using re.findall with \w instead of re.split with \W: py> import re py> text = "(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))".lower() py> re.findall(r"\w+", text) ['word1', 'word2', 'word3'] STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
