newbie question: parse a variable inside an RE?

2008-12-01 Thread joemacbusiness
Hi All, How do I parse a variable inside an RE? What is the re.search() syntax when your search string is a variable? It's easy to parse hardcoded RE's but not if you use a variable. Here is my code, input and runtime: $ cat test45.py #!/usr/bin/python import re resp = raw_input('Selection:

newbie question: if var1 == var2:

2008-11-29 Thread joemacbusiness
Hi All, I dont understand why the following code never finds tree. I could not find the answer in the Python tutorials. Here is the code, test43.in, and runtime: #!/usr/bin/python fname = open(test43.in) var = 'tree' for item in fname: print item: , item, if item == var: print

newbie question: if var1 == var2:

2008-11-28 Thread joemacbusiness
Hi All, I dont understand why the following code cannot find the variable tree. It is very simple but I could not find the answer to this on the Python Tutorials. Here is the code, input and runtime: #!/usr/bin/python fname = open(test43.in) var = 'tree' for item in fname: print item: ,

Re: Need help capturing output of re.search

2008-06-26 Thread joemacbusiness
You may like to read this: http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ This is a good resource. Thank you. Someone else pointed out that I needed to change the if reCheck == None: to if reCheck == None: # removed the s This worked great! Thanks! --JM --

Re: Need help capturing output of re.search

2008-06-26 Thread joemacbusiness
On Jun 26, 5:12 pm, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 10:01 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may like to read this:http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ This is a good resource.  Thank you. Someone else pointed out that I needed to change the if reCheck == None: to

Question: How do I format printing in python

2008-06-23 Thread joemacbusiness
Hi All, How do I format printed data in python? I could not find this in the Python Reference Manual: http://docs.python.org/ref/print.html Nor could I find it in Matloff's great tutorial: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Python/PythonIntro.pdf For example, how do I turn this: 512 Jun 5