Re: Python Regular Expressions

From	Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject	Re: Python Regular Expressions
Date	2011-06-22 21:50 -0700
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:00:42 -0700 (PDT), Andy  Barnes
<andy.barnes@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> I have a source file in csv format that follows certain rules. I

	So why not use the CSV module to read&split the fields...
> It's quite a complicated find and replace operation that can be broken
> down into some easy stages. The main thing the sample above showed was
> that some of the entries won't list any prerequisits - these only need
> the descriptor entry creating. Some of them have more than one
> prerequisite. A line is needed for each prerequisite listed, linking
> it to it's parent.
>
	That's output formatting, I won't bother trying to create an
algorithm for that...
 
> You can also see that the 'name' needs to have spaces removed and it's
> repeated a few times in the process. I Hope it's easy to see what I am

	strippedName = "".join(originalName.split())
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Python Regular Expressions Andy  Barnes <andy.barnes@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 07:00 -0700
  Re: Python Regular Expressions Andy Barnes <andy.barnes@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 07:26 -0700
    Re: Python Regular Expressions Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-06-22 14:58 +0000
  Re: Python Regular Expressions Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-06-22 17:05 +0200
  Re: Python Regular Expressions Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-06-22 21:50 -0700

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