On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:27 AM, <m...@doctors.net.uk> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Quick question:
>
> Is there an way of using the regex patterns to produce text, instead of
> matching it?
>
> E.g.:
> pat = re.compile("ab?d")
> pat.getListofPossibleText()
>
There's no end to the length of many patterns so this would be fairly pointless.
For example, what would getListofPossibleText do for the pattern ".*" ?
I think the better question is: what are you trying to do?
Or perhaps: Why do you think you need to solve your problem this way?
-Luke
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