Disregard! Looks like part of my problem is the regex string.
On 5/18/07, Tom Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please forgive the colors, just trying to help illustrate my question. The below code snipet works as designed, however the regex matches once and exits. I want it to continue matching and printing until EOF. Any suggestions? Why the cStringIO stuff? The input data shown below is collected from os.popen. I was trying to find an easy way of matching my regex. Matching with a string seemed easier than looping through the ouput collected. Hmm. Come to think of it, I guess I could match on the first "^dn" catpure that output and then keep looping until "^cn:" is seen. Then repeat. Anyways, any suggestions to fix the below code? Thanks for the help, Code Snipet ########### multi_regex = re.compile(r'dn: uid=(\w+)..*cn: ((\w+ \w+)|(\w+ \w+\. \w+))..*(?=dn:)', re.MULTILINE| re.DOTALL) output = os.popen(command).readlines() voutput = cStringIO.StringIO() for line in output: voutput.write(line) contents = voutput.getvalue() #<-- contents is <type 'str'> match = re.search(multi_regex, contents) if match: print match.group(1) print match.group(2) Blue = is what the regex matches Red = regex groups # match.group(#) Green = next regex groups not being captured INPUT Data ########### version: 1 dn: uid= jtucker,ou=people,dc=companyA,dc=com host: hostA host: hostB host: hostC description: other gecos: John Tucker gidNumber: 1 uidNumber: 1157 sn: Tucker cn: John Tucker uid: jtucker objectClass: top objectClass: account objectClass: person objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: shadowAccount objectClass: inetorgperson objectClass: organizationalPerson loginShell: /usr/bin/ksh homeDirectory: /home/jtucker dn: uid=ttucker ,ou=people,dc=companyA,dc=com loginShell: /usr/bin/zsh host: hostZ host: hostC uid: ttucker cn: Tom Tucker sn: Tucker objectClass: top objectClass: account objectClass: person objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: shadowAccount objectClass: inetorgperson objectClass: organizationalPerson uidNumber: 108 gidNumber: 102 gecos: Tom Tucker homeDirectory: /home/ttucker description: system Current OUTPUT ################# jtucker John Tucker Desired OUTPUT ################ jtucker John Tucker ttucker Tom Tucker
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