On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
> Hey, all -- I know how to match and return stuff from a regex, but I'd
> like to do an if, something like (from Perl, sorry):
>
> if (/MatchTextHere/){DoSomething();}
>
> How do I accomplish this in Python?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
>Python doesn't have regular expressions as a language feature. It's just a module in the standard library. import re if re.search(pattern, string) : Stuff However, regular expressions aren't used as much in Python as they are in Perl. Regular expressions are overkill for a lot of applications. If you're just checking to see if a string contains some text, use "if substring in string". If you're checking to see if some text is at the start of the string, do string.startswith(substring). > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
