On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:19:04 -0500, Larry Bates wrote:
>> I really dont care if the expression is optimal. So the goal is
>> something like:
>>
>> vowel_regexp = oneOf("a aa i ii u uu".split()) # yielding r'(aa|a|uu|
>> u|ii|i)'
>>
>> Is there a public module available for this purpose?
>>
>>
>>
> Perhaps I'm missing something but your function call oneOf(...) is
> longer than than actually specifying the result.
>
> You can certainly write quite easily:
>
> def oneOf(s):
> return "|".join(s.split())
I'd throw `re.escape()` into that function just in case `s` contains
something with special meaning in regular expressions.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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