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Re: How do you print a string after it's been searched for an RE?

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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:58 PM, John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> wrote:
> After I've run the re.search function on a string and no match was
> found, how can I access that string? When I try to print it directly,
> it's an empty string, I assume because it has been "consumed." How do
> I prevent this?

This has nothing to do with regular expressions. It would appear that
page.read() is letting you read the response body multiple times in
2.x but not in 3.x, probably due to a change in buffering.  Just store
the string in a variable and avoid calling page.read() multiple times.

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How do you print a string after it's been searched for an RE? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 12:58 -0700
  Re: How do you print a string after it's been searched for an RE? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 14:47 -0600
    Re: How do you print a string after it's been searched for an RE? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 14:14 -0700
  Re: How do you print a string after it's been searched for an  RE? "Thomas L. Shinnick" <tshinnic@prismnet.com> - 2011-06-23 16:47 -0500
    Re: How do you print a string after it's been searched for an RE? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 15:02 -0700

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