I think % are not comments (because the first '(' on the second line
matches the last ')' on the same line). They might just be pattern
replacers...
I guess the one-liner shuld simply be
attrfind = re.compile('[%s]*([a-zA-Z_][-.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)' % string.whitespace
+ ('([%s]*=[%s]*' % (string.whitespace, string.whitespace)) +
r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./:+*%?!\(\)_#=~]*))?')
or maybe just add parens around each line :
attrfind = re.compile(('[%s]*([a-zA-Z_][-.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)' %
string.whitespace) + ('([%s]*=[%s]*' % (string.whitespace,
string.whitespace)) +
(r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./:+*%?!\(\)_#=~]*))?'))
NH
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Bill Nalen/Towers Perrin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Date: mercredi 6 juin 2001 15:22
> �: Plucker Development List
> Objet: Re: Windows Palm conduit
>
>
> Can someone translate the following into a single line?
>
> It's from the sgml library and is supposed to allow me to find the
> attributes within a tag. I have a version of the pcre, but I don't know
> what the second and third lines are supposed to do.
>
> attrfind = re.compile(
> '[%s]*([a-zA-Z_][-.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)' % string.whitespace
> + ('([%s]*=[%s]*' % (string.whitespace, string.whitespace))
> + r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./:+*%?!\(\)_#=~]*))?')
>
> I thought it was
>
> '[ ]*([a-zA-Z_][-.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)([ ]*=[
]*('[^']*'|\"[^\"]*\"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./:
> +*%?!\\_#=~]*))?'
>
> but that doesn't seem to work quite right. I guess I don't know what the
r
> does in the third line.
>
> I am assuming that for the tag
> <a href="http://someurl/page.html";>
> I would get href, and http://someurl/page.html for the attributes from
the
> re.match command.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Bill
>
