Tim Finley wrote:
> I get the following when running a script.
>
> TypeError: argument 1 must be string or read-only character buffer, not
> _sre.SRE_Pattern
>
> Here is the script I am trying to run. I am trying to verify that my
> search is returning what I am trying to search for, but due to the error
> I can verify it.
>
> import re
>
> log = open('audit.log') # Opens audit log
> log2 = open('timaudit.log','w')
> for line in log:
> line =re.compile(r"""
Here you are replacing 'line' the data from one line of the log with
'line' a compiled regular expression. 'line' the data is no longer
available.
> \w #match any alphanumeric character
> \Audit report for user+
> \User reported as inactive+
> """, re.VERBOSE)
> line.search('Audit report for user () User reported as inactive')
Now you use 'line' the regex to search some fixed text.
> log2.write(line)
This writes the regex to the file, which is the cause of the error.
>
> log.close()
> log2.close()
I'm not really sure what you are trying to do. I think you want to write
every line from log that matches the regex to log2. Code to do that
would look like this:
log = open('audit.log') # Opens audit log
log2 = open('timaudit.log','w')
audit_re =re.compile(r"""
\w #match any alphanumeric character
\Audit report for user+
\User reported as inactive+
""", re.VERBOSE)
for line in log:
if audit_re.search(line):
log2.write(line)
log.close()
log2.close()
Kent
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