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From: Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:03:19 +0100
Subject: Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression
To: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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On 15 June 2013 11:18, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I tend to reach for string methods rather than an RE so will something like
> this suit you?
>
> c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>type a.py
> for s in ("In the ocean",
>           "On the ocean",
>           "By the ocean",
>           "In this group",
>           "In this group",
>           "By the new group"):
>     print(' '.join(s.split()[1:-1]))
>
>
> c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>a
> the
> the
> the
> this
> this
> the new

Careful - " ".join(s.split()) != s

Eg:
>>> " ".join("s\ns".split())
's s'

It's pedantry, but true.