On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Ellerbee, Edward <eeller...@bbandt.com> wrote: > Thank you! > > That works perfect, I'll have to look into string formatting more. > > My next issue to solve I've been researching is: > > How to condense a group of numbers to a wildcard list. For example: > > 252205 > 252206 > 252208 > 252220 > 252221 > 252222 > 252223 > 919745 > 919725 > 919785 > 704770 thru 704799 (all numbers listed individually in a file) > > Condense to: > 25220[568] > 25222[0-3] (or 25222[0123] is fine too) > 9197[248]5 > 7047[0-9][0-9] > > Any recommendations on where to start, a method or function to research?
Hm, perhaps re (http://docs.python.org/library/re.html). It depends on whether it's a standard static set of values you need to compare against, or a undefined dynamic set. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
