Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.011 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'syntax': 0.04; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:Why': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; '-tkc': 0.16; '14:38,': 0.16; '2.7.3': 0.16; 'paragraphs,': 0.16; 'prog': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'slight': 0.16; 'spacing': 0.16; 'syntaxerror:': 0.16; 'url:html#re': 0.16; 'url:re': 0.16; 'variable.': 0.16; 'prevent': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'thanks,': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'thanks.': 0.20; '>>>': 0.22; 'import': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'url:moin': 0.24; 'fine': 0.24; 'looks': 0.24; '---': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'tim': 0.29; 'topic': 0.29; 'url:mailman': 0.30; 'url:wiki': 0.31; '"",': 0.31; '>>>>': 0.31; 'chase': 0.31; 'object.': 0.31; 'file': 0.32; 'class': 0.32; 'worked': 0.33; 'url:python': 0.33; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'subject:from': 0.34; 'definition': 0.35; 'etc': 0.35; 'url:listinfo': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'list': 0.37; 'url:library': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'sure': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'mailing': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'read': 0.60; 'free': 0.61; 'url:3': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'simple': 0.61; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'protection': 0.63; 'july': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'mar': 0.68; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'invalid': 0.68; 'caused': 0.69; '100': 0.79; 'url:search': 0.81; "'result'": 0.84; '2014,': 0.84; 'cygwin': 0.84; 'object:': 0.84; 'unclear': 0.84; '2013,': 0.91; 'careful': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Why is it different from the example on the tutorial? Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 15:25:13 +0100 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-18-5-57.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140706-0, 06/07/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 121 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1404656725 news.xs4all.nl 2867 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:55428 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:74016 On 06/07/2014 14:38, rxjwg98@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, July 6, 2014 8:54:42 AM UTC-4, Tim Chase wrote: >> On 2014-07-06 05:13, rxjwg98@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> What I get on Python console: >> >>> >> >>> $ python >> >>> Python 2.7.5 (default, Oct 2 2013, 22:34:09) >> >>> [GCC 4.8.1] on cygwin >> >>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more >> >>> information. >> >>>>>> import re >> >>>>>> p = re.compile('ab*') >> >>> File "", line 1 >> >>> p = re.compile('ab*') >> >>> ^ >> >>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> >>>>>> >> >> >> >> Are you sure that you copied/pasted that directly from the console >> >> instead of transcribing it with some mistake? >> >> >> >> I just did the same thing at the console and it worked perfectly >> >> fine >> >> >> >> $ python >> >> Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55) >> >> [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 >> >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >> >>>>> import re >> >>>>> p = re.compile('ab*') >> >>>>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -tkc > Thanks. It did be caused by unclear copy&paste. I shall be careful in future. > > When I enter: >>>> counter=100 >>>> counter > 100 > > When I get match result: > >>>> pattern='abcd' >>>> prog = re.compile(pattern) >>>> string='abcd' >>>> result = prog.match(string) >>>> result > <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x6ffffeda5e0> > >>>> result.group(0) > 'abcd' > > It looks like 'result' is different from a simple 'counter' variable. I do not > yet find the definition of 'result' object. What do you call 'result' object? > Where can I find it (what topic would be in a tutorial)? > > Thanks, > > >>> help(result) Help on SRE_Match object: class SRE_Match(builtins.object) | The result of re.match() and re.search(). etc https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#module-re https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#match-objects https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.match https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.search https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-examples A slight aside, would you please use the mailing list https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list or read and action this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us seeing double line spacing and single line paragraphs, thanks. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! 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