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| From | Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python |
| Date | 2016-01-15 14:34 +0100 |
| Organization | None |
| Message-ID | <mailman.12.1452864897.15297.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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Charles T. Smith wrote:
> What the original snippet does is parse *and consume* a string - actually,
> to avoid maintaining a cursor traverse the string. The perl feature is
> that substitute allows the found pattern to be replaced, but retains the
> group after the expression is complete.
That is too technical for my taste. When is your "paradigm" more useful than
a simple
re.finditer(), re.findall(), or re.split()
?
>> things = []
>> while some_str != tail:
>> m = re.match(pattern_str, some_str)
>> things.append(some_str[:m.end()])
>> some_str = some_str[m.end():]
If that were common (or even ever occured) I'd write a helper which avoids
the brittle some_str != tail comparison and exposes the functionality in a
for loop:
class MissingTailError(ValueError):
pass
class UnparsedRestError(ValueError):
pass
def shave_off(regex, text, tail=None):
"""
>>> for s in shave_off(r"[a-z]+ \\d+\\s*",
... "foo 12 bar 34 baz", tail="baz"):
... s
'foo 12 '
'bar 34 '
"""
if tail is not None:
if text.endswith(tail):
end = len(text) - len(tail)
else:
raise MissingTailError("%r does not end with %r" % (text, tail))
else:
end = len(text)
start = 0
r = re.compile(regex)
while start != end:
m = r.match(text, start, end)
if m is None:
raise UnparsedRestError(
"%r does not match pattern %r"
% (text[start:end], r.pattern))
yield text[m.start():m.end()]
start = m.end()
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Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 09:24 +0000
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-15 10:43 +0100
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2016-01-15 02:20 -0800
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2016-01-15 11:42 +0100
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 11:04 +0000
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 11:06 +0000
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2016-01-15 14:20 +0100
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 13:05 +0000
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2016-01-18 14:33 +0100
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-15 14:34 +0100
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2016-01-15 13:51 +0000
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python me <self@example.org> - 2016-01-15 15:20 +0000
Re: Powerful perl paradigm I don't find in python Nathan Hilterbrand <nhilterbrand@gmail.com> - 2016-01-15 11:54 -0500
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