-- The states are lists of regular expressions -- where [a,b,..] means match a or b or...
I haven't run or studied your program yet myself but what I had in mind was that the list of wc's are *all* to be excluded, so the list [wc1..wcn] is to correspond generating all tuples matching not(wc1 and .. and wcn). Maybe you're already doing that. The wc's themselves could be logical statements among the 'primitive' wc's. That's why I named it the 'wildcard exclusion problem'. It's a lot easier to specify a list of simpler wc's than create a long logical expression. Thanks to all who are making this an interesting thread. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
