On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 03:08:23PM -0800, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
> Also of confusion, the library reference says:
>
> Match objects always have a boolean value of True. Since match() and
> search() return None when there is no match, you can test whether there was
> a match with a simple if stat
Coming in late to the conversation:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 04:34:29PM -0800, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
> I have the following code:
>
> import urllib.request,re,string
> months = ['Jan.', 'Feb.', 'Mar.', 'Apr.', 'May.', 'Jun.', 'Jul.', 'Aug.',
> 'Sep.', 'Oct.', 'Nov.', 'Dec.']
> from urllib.reque
On 2014-11-11 06:19, eryksun wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Alan Gauld
wrote:
Python 3 extended unpacking:
>>> a, *bcd, e = 'abcde'
>>> a
'a'
>>> bcd
['b', 'c', 'd']
>>> e
'e'
Seeing the above in a recent post, it made me wonder what would happen
if
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 11/11/14 04:45, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
>
*list(range(1,6))
>>
>>File "", line 1
>> SyntaxError: can use starred expression only as assignment target
>
> list() is a function. You cannot unpack a function.
>
> Also the * operator nee
On 11/11/14 04:45, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
*list(range(1,6))
File "", line 1
SyntaxError: can use starred expression only as assignment target
list() is a function. You cannot unpack a function.
Also the * operator needs to be used inside a function parameter list.
(There may be some obsc
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>On 11/11/14 00:28, Clayton Kirk
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On 11/11/14 00:52, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
But group() - singular - returns a single group item which is always a
string. You use group() to get the matching substring. You use groups to
find all the substrings.
I believe that is true only if you are receiving a single return value. If
it is m
On 11/11/14 00:28, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
This seems to be the only relevant words:
4.7.4. Unpacking Argument Lists
...when the arguments are already in a list or tuple but need to be unpacked
> > for a function call If they are not available separately,
write the function
> call with
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>On 10/11/14 23:08, Clayton Kirk
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On 10/11/14 23:08, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
I couldn't find a way to get the len of blah.
What would you expect the answer to be?
I would expect len(sizeof, whatever)(blah) to return the number of (in this
case) matches, so 5.
But remember that search is matching the pattern, not the groups
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>On 10/11/14 00:34, Clayton Kirk
On 10/11/14 00:34, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
if 'EST' in line or 'EDT' in line: # look for Eastern Time
blah =
re.search(r'<\w\w>(\w{3}\.)\s+(\d{2}),\s+(\d{2}).+([AP]M)\s+(E[SD]T)', line)
(month, day, time, ap, offset) = blah.group(1,2,3,4,5)
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 28), match='
Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
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>>-Original Message-
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>>Subject: Re: [Tutor] don't u
"Clayton Kirkwood" writes:
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(Clayton, does your mail client not present messages written by their
authors? The messages should not come to you “From:” the tutor list
itself
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>Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
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>You forgot to state your Py
Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
> I have the following code:
> blah =
> re.search(r'<\w\w>(\w{3}\.)\s+(\d{2}),\s+(\d{2}).+([AP]M)\s+(E[SD]T)',
> line)
> (month, day, time, ap, offset) = blah.group(1,2,3,4,5)
> This works fine, but in the (month... line, I have blah.group(1,2,3,4,5),
>
You forgot to state your Python version. I'll assume 3.4
"Clayton Kirkwood" Wrote in message:
> I have the following code: import urllib.request,re,stringmonths =
> ['Jan.', 'Feb.', 'Mar.', 'Apr.', 'May.', 'Jun.', 'Jul.', 'Aug.', 'Sep.',
> 'Oct.', 'Nov.', 'Dec.']from urllib.request import urlop
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