Re: Positions of regexp groups
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Peters wrote: >[Magnus Lie Hetland] >> Just a quick question: Does anyone have a simple way of finding the >> positions (start, end) of the groups in a regexp match? AFAICS, the re >> API can only return the contents...? > >Read the docs for match objects, esp. the start(), end(), and span() >methods. Right. I was just now editing the regex-stuff in my book for the second edition, and found that I had, in fact, written about just this behaviour. Oh, well. I guess it's a feature I don't use much :} Thanks, anyway. -- Magnus Lie HetlandFall seven times, stand up eight http://hetland.org [Japanese proverb] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Positions of regexp groups
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:18:27 + (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magnus Lie Hetland) wrote: >Just a quick question: Does anyone have a simple way of finding the >positions (start, end) of the groups in a regexp match? AFAICS, the re >API can only return the contents...? These documented methods of the match object aren't simple enough??? """ start( [group]) end( [group]) Return the indices of the start and end of the substring matched by group """ and there's span() which returns a tuple (start, end) ... what simpler could you ask for, Mr Occam? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Positions of regexp groups
[Magnus Lie Hetland] > Just a quick question: Does anyone have a simple way of finding the > positions (start, end) of the groups in a regexp match? AFAICS, the re > API can only return the contents...? Read the docs for match objects, esp. the start(), end(), and span() methods. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Positions of regexp groups
Just a quick question: Does anyone have a simple way of finding the positions (start, end) of the groups in a regexp match? AFAICS, the re API can only return the contents...? -- Magnus Lie HetlandFall seven times, stand up eight http://hetland.org [Japanese proverb] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
