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Fredrik Lundh  
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 More options May 29 1998, 3:00 am
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From: "Fredrik Lundh" <fred...@pythonware.com>
Date: 1998/05/29
Subject: Re: Regular Expression newbie needs help
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>Another way to handle this case is to use the `[.]' regular
>expression, but to only look at strings which *don't* match it.  In
>other words:

>   if not re.search('[.]', string):
>       print '%s contains no periods' % (string)

How about:

    if "." not in string:
        print string, "contains no periods"

Cheers /F
fred...@pythonware.com
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    "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use
    regular expressions.'  Now they have two problems."
        -- Jamie Zawinski, on comp.lang.emacs


 
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