Yeah, that's a bit of a brute force approach alright. Mainly all the (\n)?(=\n)?...
I, personally, intend to have words with a Mr William Gates regarding just what horrors Frontpage inflicts. I also intend to discuss this with gmail.google.com, as they parsed the text attachment I sent myself, added it to the message body, (it seems),unattached it, and added to the mess a wee bit. My emails always seem strangely formatted, so yes... But, that said, I've been shown far more horrific regexe's. I saw one to parse an ISO-8601 date string (in PHP, I think?) Made mine look elegant and simple... But, it was good to learn a wee bit about the re module. Now that I've actually done this, I probably won't need to do it again, but I'll know a bit more about the appropriate use of re's. I still prefer string methods for the simple stuff. It did start off as a way to avoid cutting & pasting, ended up as a pursuit of knowledge. Oh well. Thanks to all for the assistance. Regards, Liam Clarke On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:50:25 -0500, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, that's a regex only a mother could love. :-) I can see why you were > happy to find the > (?P<text>) form of grouping. > > You should compile textObj and urlObj outside of getVals. You could just pull > the four lines that > create textObj and urlObj outside of the function (into global scope). You > just have to compile a > regex once, then you can use it multiple times. Compiling is relatively slow > so pulling it out of > the loop is an optimization. > > Congrats on getting this working! > > > Kent > > Liam Clarke wrote: > > Hi Kent, > > > > Thanks for the help, it worked third time around! > > > > The final product is here if you have an interest - > > http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/XCYthC70.html > > > > But, I think I found a new best friend for this sort of thing - > > (?P<text>.*?) > > > > Being able to label stuff is brilliant. > > > > But yeah, thanks for the help, especially that sub method. > > > > Regards, > > > > Liam Clarke > _______________________________________________ > > > Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- 'There is only one basic human right, and that is to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, to take the consequences. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
