On 2013-08-28 13:14, random...@fastmail.us wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013, at 12:44, John Levine wrote: > > I have a crufty old DNS provisioning system that I'm rewriting > > and I hope improving in python. (It's based on tinydns if you > > know what that is.) > > > > The record formats are, in the worst case, like this: > > > > foo.[DOM]::[IP6::4361:6368:6574]:600:: > > Otherwise: > >>> re.findall('((?:[^[:]|\[[^]]*\])*):?',s) > ['foo.[DOM]', '', '[IP6::4361:6368:6574]', '600', '', ''] > > I'm not sure why _your_ list only has one empty string at the end.
I wondered that. I also wondered about bracketed quoting that doesn't start at the beginning of a field: foo.[one:two]::[IP6::1234:5678:9101]:600:: ^ This might be bogus, or one might want to catch this case. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list