On 16 July 2013 16:38, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 16/07/2013 11:18, Mohan L wrote: >> >> I using another third party python script. It takes the regex from >> configuration file. I can't write any code. I have to do all this in >> single regex. >> > A capture group captures a single substring. > > What you're asking is for it to with capture 2 substrings (the date and > the time) and then join them together, or capture 1 substring and then > remove part of it. > > I don't know of _any_ regex implementation that lets you do that.
If MRAB is correct, there is one straw-clutching method. If in the configuration you pass a regex *object* rather than a regex string, you could duck-type as a regex object. This might sound far-fetched but it's happened once to me. Otherwise, good luck. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list