Hi Fredrik you brought up some terse and somehow expressive lines with their own beauty ...
> [this] is best done by a list comprehension: > l = [m[1] for m in re.findall(r, t)] > > or, [...] a generator expression: > g = (m[1] for m in re.findall(r, t)) > > or > process(m[1] for m in re.findall(r, t)) > > ... avoid creating the tuples, ... finditer instead: > l = [m.group(2) for m in re.finditer(r, t)] > g = (m.group(2) for m in re.finditer(r, t)) > > finditer is also a good tool to use > for m in re.finditer(r, t): > s = m.group(2) > ... process s in some way ... ... which made me wish to internalize such wisdom too ;-) This looks almost beautiful, it made me stand up and go to some large book stores in order to grab a good book on python. Sadly, there were none (except one small 'dictionary', ISBN: 3826615123). I live in a fairly large city in Germany w/three large bookstores in the center, where one can get loads of PHP and Java books, lots of C/C++ and the like - even some Ruby books (some "Rails" too) on display (WTF). Not that I wouldn't order books (I do that all the time for 'original versions') but it makes one sad-faced to see the small impact of the Python language here today on bookstore-tournarounds ... Thanks & regards Mirco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list