Hi, I'm having some problems with basic RE in python. I was wondering whether somebody could provide a hint on what's going wrong with the following script. Comments are included.
TIA. -myself > python2.3 Python 2.3.4 (#1, Nov 18 2004, 13:39:30) [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-39)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import re >>> pattern = re.compile('.*HTTP/(\d\.\d) *(\d*) *(.*)$') >>> pattern.search("GGHTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n", re.IGNORECASE) <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb75c6ed0> >>> pattern.search("GHTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n", re.IGNORECASE) # this makes no sense to me. Why is the previous line matched # and this not? >>> pattern.search("GHTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n") <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb758d020> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list