On 2 Jan 2006 21:00:53 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Has anyone has issue with compiled re's vis-a-vis the re.I (ignore
> case) flag? I can't make sense of this compiled re producing a
> different match when given the flag, odd both in it's difference from
> the uncompiled regex (as I thought the uncompiled api was a wrapper
> around a compile-and-execute block) and it's difference from the
> compiled version with no flag specified. The match given is utter
> nonsense given the input re.
The re.compile and re.match methods take the flag parameter:
compile( pattern[, flags])
match( pattern, string[, flags])
But the regular expression object method takes different paramters:
match( string[, pos[, endpos]])
It's not a little confusing that the parameters to re.match() and
re.compile().match() are so different, but that's the cause of what
you're seeing.
You need to do:
reCompiled = re.compile(reStr, re.I)
reCompiled.match(against).groups()
to get the behaviour you want.
Andrew
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