On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Chris Hare wrote:
Okay - I am officially embarrassed.
[...]
Meh, don't beat yourself up too badly. We've all been where you are now.
Sometimes I look back at my early Python code... I tell you, that's always a
good antidote for a big head.
I re
Chris Hare wrote:
Okay - I am officially embarrassed.
[...]
Meh, don't beat yourself up too badly. We've all been where you are now.
Sometimes I look back at my early Python code... I tell you, that's always a
good antidote for a big head.
--
Steven
_
Okay - I am officially embarrassed.
As you might now, I am splitting this 10,000 line file apart, and that is
posing certain challenges which I am fixing, and cleaning up stuff that was
broken and visible only when doing this split.
This is one of them.
What I failed to remember -- and y
Chris Hare wrote:
def special_match(string, search=re.compile(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9\.\
\-\#\$\*\@\!\%\^\&]').search):
#string = string.rstrip()
return not bool(search(string))
The call to bool is redundant. Get rid of it. The not operator will
automatically convert its argument into a
On 10 Jul 2012 11:31, "Chris Hare" wrote:
>
>
> This piece of code works:
>
> Big-Mac:Classes chare$ more tmp.py
> import re
>
> return not bool(search(string))
> However, when I use the EXACT same code in the context of the larger
code, I get the error
>
> return not bool(search
> This piece of code works:
>
> Big-Mac:Classes chare$ more tmp.py
> import re
>
> def special_match(string, search=re.compile(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9\.\ \-
> \#\$\*\@\!\%\^\&]').search):
> #string = string.rstrip()
> return not bool(search(string))
>
> print special_match("admin")
> print
On 07/10/2012 10:56 AM, Chris Hare wrote:
> This piece of code works:
>
> Big-Mac:Classes chare$ more tmp.py
> import re
>
> def special_match(string, search=re.compile(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9\.\
> \-\#\$\*\@\!\%\^\&]').search):
> #string = string.rstrip()
> return not bool(search(string))
Y
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Chris Hare wrote:
> The input to the function in the larger program is the same as the first test
> in the small script that works -- "admin".
>
> As a side note -- the rstrip call is also broken, although the string module
> is imported. I just can't figure ou
