Re: [Tutor] Python re without string consumption

2007-01-25 Thread Kent Johnson
Jacob Abraham wrote: Hi Danny Yoo, I would like to thank you for the solution and the helper funtion that I have written is as follows. But I do hope that future versions of Python include a regular expression syntax to handle such cases simply because this method seems very process and

Re: [Tutor] Python re without string consumption

2007-01-25 Thread Terry Carroll
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Jacob Abraham wrote: I would like to thank you for the solution and the helper funtion that I have written is as follows. That's very similar to a solution I coded up for a friend, who was doing searches in genetic sequences, and had exactly the same problem you did.

[Tutor] Python re without string consumption

2007-01-24 Thread Jacob Abraham
Dear Tutors, I'm having a little trouble while using the re module. eg import re re.findall(abca, abcabcabca) [abca, abca] While I am expecting. [abca, abca, abca] How do I modify my regular expression to do the same. Thanks for the help. Regards, Jacob Abraham

Re: [Tutor] Python re without string consumption

2007-01-24 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Jacob Abraham wrote: import re re.findall(abca, abcabcabca) [abca, abca] While I am expecting. [abca, abca, abca] Hi Jacob, Just to make sure: do you understand, though, why findall() won't give you the results you want? The documentation on findall() says:

Re: [Tutor] Python re without string consumption

2007-01-24 Thread Jacob Abraham
in searchall(abca, abcabcabca, 1): print match.group() Thanks Again. Jacob Abraham - Original Message From: Danny Yoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jacob Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: python tutor@python.org Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:14:31 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Python re