On Sep 9, 9:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> I really dont care if theexpressionis 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?
>
> Check Ka-Ping Yee's rxb module:
>
> http://lfw.org/python/
Ok <http://lfw.org/python/rxb.py>
suffers from the possibility of putting shorter match before longer
one:
def either(*alternatives):
options = []
for option in alternatives:
options.append(makepat(option).regex)
return Pattern('\(' + string.join(options, '|') + '\)')
> Also, check PyPI to see if
> someone has already updated rxb for use with re.
No one has - http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=rxb&submit=search
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