Hey; Long term perl ahderent finally making the leap to python. From my reading, python, for the most part, uses perl regex.. except, I can't seem to make it work...
I have a txt file from which I can grab specific titles via a perl one-liner: $ perl -ne 'print if (m{^("?)[1-9]*\.})' tables 1. ${title1} 2. ${title2} "3. ${title3}",,, 4. one more title 5. nuther title 6. and so on...,, ... 25. last title I can't seem to get the same titles to appear using python: $ python -V Python 3.5.2 $ python Python 3.5.2 (default, Jul 5 2016, 12:43:10) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> import re >>> with open('tables','rt') as f: data = f.read() printing data results in the output I would expect.. Trying to compile a regex and display the results does not show the same results I get from perl. >>> regex = r'^("?)[1-9]*\.' >>> re.search(regex, data) >>> >>> p = re.compile(r'^("?)[1-9]*\.') >>> p re.compile('^("?)[1-9]*\\.') >>> p.findall(data) I've tried any number of options shown on the net all with the same result. Can someone point out what I'm messing up? Thanks Doug -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list