Regular expressions using re

[blindlemonsam]

Python 2.5
Hi all, can anybody tell me how to say "if a jpeg file does NOT have 'gallery_' in the first bit" using the python re module. Something like this:
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re.compile('^ga llery_[^|]{1,256}.jp[e]{0,1}g$', re.I)
[/code]
The problem seems to be with the first bit "^gallery_" which is wrong, it just returns all the files that do have "gallery_" in the first bit.

[drumma5]

I wrote a function for you just to show a way you could do it: (I hope this answers what you were wondering about)

def find_match(str):
    if not re.match('^gallery_[^|]{1,256}\.jpe?g', str):
        print 'it did NOT match';
    else:
        print 'it matched';