On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Kevin T <kevini...@gmail.com> wrote: > I went back and tried version a again, blam it is/does work now ?!?!? > I am not sure what changed but version a was the original code that > wouldn't work. All the examples i had read, showed version a as a > working version. I spent significant time trying version a with > parens, spacing changes, different regex values to no avail. hence > the creation of all the other versions.
This is why the Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example is so important. See http://sscce.org/ for some info on that. I often find myself stuck, begin typing up a post to some appropriate mailing list, and while coalescing the problem into its smallest possible form, end up finding the cause directly. More often than not, I end up discarding the message unsent (though sometimes, I end up submitting a patch to the language/library maintainers, eg improving the docs so it's more visible next time). In any case, if you can copy and paste the exact code and error, it's a lot easier for us to replicate your problem. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
