I seem to fall into this trap (maybe my Perl background) where I want
to simultaneously test a regular expression and then extract its match
groups in the same action. For instance:
if (match = re.search('(\w+ )\s*(\w+)', foo)):
field1 = match.group(1)
field2 = match.group(2)
...
(compare to Perl:)
if($foo =~ /(\w+)\s*(\w+)/) {
$field1 = $1;
$field2 = $2;
...
}
Problem is, my python is invalid above. What's the pythonic way to do
this?
Thanks in advance O Python Charmers
Mike
to simultaneously test a regular expression and then extract its match
groups in the same action. For instance:
if (match = re.search('(\w+ )\s*(\w+)', foo)):
field1 = match.group(1)
field2 = match.group(2)
...
(compare to Perl:)
if($foo =~ /(\w+)\s*(\w+)/) {
$field1 = $1;
$field2 = $2;
...
}
Problem is, my python is invalid above. What's the pythonic way to do
this?
Thanks in advance O Python Charmers
Mike