George Burdell <gburde...@gmail.com> writes: > I want to find every occurrence of "money," and for each occurrence, I > want to scan back to the first occurrence of "hello." How can this be > done?
By recognising the task: not expression matching, but lexing and parsing. For which you might find the ‘pyparsing’ library of use <URL:http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/>. -- \ “Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first | `\ principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the | _o__) easiest person to fool.” —Richard P. Feynman, 1964 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
