Gilles Ganault <nos...@nospam.com> writes: > Thanks everyone for the help. This script is just a one-shot thingie > on my work host, not as a web script or anything professional. > > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:05:28 -0700 (PDT), Jonathan Gardner > <jgard...@jonathangardner.net> wrote: > > r"(?P<date>\d+)\s+(?P<month>\w+)\s+(?P<year>\d+)" > > I've never seen regexes like this. I'm curious to know what those > mean:
Luckily, you have access to the documentation to find out. > r = Unicode? <URL:http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-literals> > (?P<date> = ? means that it shouldn't be greedy, what about P<date>? <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/re#regular-expression-syntax> -- \ “We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone.” —restaurant, | `\ Japan | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
