a re problem

[cheng]

>>> p.sub('','a\nbc')
'abc'
>>> p.sub('','%s') % "a\nbc"
'a\nbc'

is it anyone got some idea why it happen?

[Mikael Olofsson]

cheng wrote:

>>>p.sub('','%s') % "a\nbc"
>>>
>>>
>'a\nbc'
>
>is it anyone got some idea why it happen?
>

Make that

p.sub('','%s' % "a\nbc")

Regards
/Mikael Olofsson

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Linköpings universitet

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[Fredrik Lundh]

"cheng" <magi...@spymac.com> wrote:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'p' is not defined

>>> import re
>>> p = re.compile("\n*")

>>> p.sub("", "a\nbc")
'abc'
>>> p.sub("", "%s")

'%s'

</F>

[cheng]

thx for help :)

[James Stroud]

py> import re
py> target = 'blah'
py> text = 'yaddah blah yaddah yaddah'
py> ext = re.sub(r'\b%s\b' % target,'',text)
py> ext
'yaddah yaddah yaddah'

On Friday 27 May 2005 10:56 pm, cheng wrote:
> hi,all, i try to replace every target word found in the text
>
> for target in splitText:
> if stopwords.find(target) >= 0 :
> text = re.sub(r'\b%s\b','',text) &target
>
> when i using the statment:
>
> text = re.sub(r'\b%s\b','',text) &target
>
> get error : unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'str' and 'str'
>
> is it some idea that can modity it and make it work?

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