2012/10/23 MartinD. <cyberdi...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I'm new to Python. > Does someone has an idea what's wrong. I tried everything. The only regex > that is tested is the last one in a whole list of regex in keywords.txt > Thanks! > Martin > > > ######## > def checkKeywords( str, lstKeywords ): > > for regex in lstKeywords: > match = re.search(regex, str,re.IGNORECASE) > # If-statement after search() tests if it succeeded > if match: > print match.group() ##just debugging > return match.group() ## 'found! > > return > > ######### > > keywords1 = [line for line in open('keywords1.txt')] > resultKeywords1 = checkKeywords("string_to_test",keywords1) > print resultKeywords1 > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Hi, just a wild guess, as I don't have access to containing the list of potentially problematic regex patterns does: keywords1 = [line.strip() for line in open('keywords1.txt')] possibly fix yout problem? the lines of the file iterator also preserve newlines, which might not be expected in your keywords, strip() removes (be default) any starting and tryiling whitespace. hth, vbr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list