On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 09:31, Brett Ritter <swift...@swiftone.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Richard D. Moores <rdmoo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> regex = ".*" + search + ".*" >> p = re.compile(regex, re.I)
> > Just having "search" as your regex is fine (it will search for the > pattern _in_ the string, no need to specify the other parts of the > string), I see. Thanks. > but if you're not using any special regex characters you're > probably better off not using a regex and just using a string > operation. Please see my reply to Wayne Werner. Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
