Re: Exact match with regular expression

2008-11-04 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mr.SpOOn wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny how you never get a thank-you when you tell people to RTFM. My fault :\ I said thank you to Rob, but I just sent a private message. It's just that I did a

Re: Exact match with regular expression

2008-11-03 Thread Mr . SpOOn
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Williscroft wrote: Read (and bookmark) this: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/re-syntax.html Funny how you never get a thank-you when you tell people to RTFM. My fault :\ I

Re: Exact match with regular expression

2008-11-01 Thread Rob Williscroft
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Williscroft wrote: Read (and bookmark) this: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/re-syntax.html Funny how you never get a thank-you when you tell people to RTFM. Saying Thank

Re: Exact match with regular expression

2008-10-31 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Williscroft wrote: Read (and bookmark) this: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/re-syntax.html Funny how you never get a thank-you when you tell people to RTFM. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Exact match with regular expression

2008-10-31 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Williscroft wrote: Read (and bookmark) this: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/re-syntax.html Funny how you never get a thank-you when you tell people to RTFM. --

Exact match with regular expression

2008-10-26 Thread Mr . SpOOn
Hi, I'd like to use regular expressions to parse a string and accept only valid strings. What I mean is the possibility to check if the whole string matches the regex. So if I have: p = re.compile('a*b*') I can match this: 'aabbb' m = p.match('aabbb') m.group() 'aabbb' But I'd

Re: Exact match with regular expression

2008-10-26 Thread Rob Williscroft
Mr.SpOOn wrote in news:mailman.3069.1225039892.3487.python- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python: Hi, I'd like to use regular expressions to parse a string and accept only valid strings. What I mean is the possibility to check if the whole string matches the regex. So if I have: p =

Re: Exact match with regular expression

2008-10-26 Thread Lie Ryan
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:51:29 +0100, Mr.SpOOn wrote: Hi, I'd like to use regular expressions to parse a string and accept only valid strings. What I mean is the possibility to check if the whole string matches the regex. So if I have: p = re.compile('a*b*') I can match this: