On 7/28/05, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This will match a string of digits followed by any non-digit, is that what > you want? If you want to restrict it to digits followed by a letter you > should use > r"(\d+|\d+[a-z])" > > Also this will match something like 123A456B, if you want to disallow > anything after the letter you need to match the end of the string: > r"(\d+|\d+[a-z])$"
Nice, thanks a bunch. > The problem is you are calling the module (re) match, not the instance > (oPattern) match. re.match() expects the second argument to be a string. Just > use > oMatch = oPattern.match( str( oArg ), 0 ) > > The hint in the error is "expected string or buffer". So you are not giving > the expected argument types which should send you to the docs to check... > > Kent You're right. Thanks for the heads up. Bernard _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
