On 2013-08-28, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2013-08-28 13:14, random...@fastmail.us wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013, at 12:44, John Levine wrote: >> > I have a crufty old DNS provisioning system that I'm rewriting >> > and I hope improving in python. (It's based on tinydns if you >> > know what that is.) >> > >> > The record formats are, in the worst case, like this: >> > >> > foo.[DOM]::[IP6::4361:6368:6574]:600:: >> >> Otherwise: >> >>> re.findall('((?:[^[:]|\[[^]]*\])*):?',s) >> ['foo.[DOM]', '', '[IP6::4361:6368:6574]', '600', '', ''] >> >> I'm not sure why _your_ list only has one empty string at the end. > > I wondered that.
Good point. My little parser fails on that, too. It'll miss *all* final fields. My parser needs "if s: yield s[b:]" at the end, to operate like str.split, where the empty string is special. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list