On 18/02/2014 18:03, Steve Willoughby wrote:
Because the regular expression <H*> means “match an angle-bracket character,
zero or more H characters, followed by a close angle-bracket character” and your
string does not match that pattern.
This is why it’s best to check that the match succeeded before going ahead to
call group() on the result (since in this case there is no result).
On 18-Feb-2014, at 09:52, Santosh Kumar <rhce....@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
If you notice the below example, case I is working as expected.
Case I:
In [41]: string = "<H*>test<H*>"
In [42]: re.match('<H\*>',string).group()
Out[42]: '<H*>'
But why is the raw string 'r' not working as expected ?
Case II:
In [43]: re.match(r'<H*>',string).group()
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-43-d66b47f01f1c> in <module>()
----> 1 re.match(r'<H*>',string).group()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
In [44]: re.match(r'<H*>',string)
Thanks,
santosh
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