On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:27:49 -0700, sgharvey wrote:
> ... and by works, I mean works like I expect it to.
>
> I'm writing my own cheesy config.ini parser because ConfigParser
> doesn't preserve case or order of sections, or order of options w/in
> sections.
>
> What's confusing me is this:
> If I try matching every line to one pattern at a time, all the
> patterns that are supposed to match, actually match.
> If I try to match every pattern to one line at a time, only one
> pattern will match.
>
> What am I not understanding about re.search?
That has nothing to do with `re.search` but how files work. A file has a
"current position marker" that is advanced at each iteration to the next
line in the file. When it is at the end, it stays there, so you can just
iterate *once* over an open file unless you rewind it with the `seek()`
method.
That only works on "seekable" files and it's not a good idea anyway
because usually the files and the overhead of reading is greater than the
time to iterate over in memory data like the patterns.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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