On Jun 23, 3:47 pm, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:58 PM, John Salerno <johnj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After I've run the re.search function on a string and no match was > > found, how can I access that string? When I try to print it directly, > > it's an empty string, I assume because it has been "consumed." How do > > I prevent this? > > This has nothing to do with regular expressions. It would appear that > page.read() is letting you read the response body multiple times in > 2.x but not in 3.x, probably due to a change in buffering. Just store > the string in a variable and avoid calling page.read() multiple times.
Thank you. That worked, and as a result I think my code will look cleaner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
