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Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> wrote:
> I went back and tried version a again, blam it is/does work now ?!?!?
> I am not sure what changed but version a was the original code that
> wouldn't work.  All the examples i had read, showed version a as a
> working version.  I spent significant time trying version a with
> parens, spacing changes, different regex values to no avail.  hence
> the creation of all the other versions.

This is why the Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example is so
important. See http://sscce.org/ for some info on that. I often find
myself stuck, begin typing up a post to some appropriate mailing list,
and while coalescing the problem into its smallest possible form, end
up finding the cause directly. More often than not, I end up
discarding the message unsent (though sometimes, I end up submitting a
patch to the language/library maintainers, eg improving the docs so
it's more visible next time). In any case, if you can copy and paste
the exact code and error, it's a lot easier for us to replicate your
problem.

ChrisA

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re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 15:43 -0800
  Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-11-20 01:21 +0000
  Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-20 01:24 +0000
    Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-20 01:29 +0000
      Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 11:09 -0800
        Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 12:37 -0700
          Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 08:41 -0800
            Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-22 16:00 +1100
              Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 11:39 -0800
                Re: Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> - 2012-11-28 14:08 -0600
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-28 21:39 +0000
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-11-28 19:20 -0500
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-11-29 09:34 +0000
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-11-29 13:38 -0500
                RE: re.search when used within an if/else fails "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-29 22:57 +0000
                RE: re.search when used within an if/else fails "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-29 22:53 +0000
              Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Kevin T <kevinintx@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 11:39 -0800
                Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-28 20:50 +0000
        Re: re.search when used within an if/else fails Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 12:39 -0700

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