converting perl to python - simple questions.

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <7fvagp$8lm$1 at nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
 <sweeting at neuronet.com.my> wrote:
>
>a) Perl's "defined".
>   [perl]
>   if (defined($x{$token})
>
>   [python]
>   if (x.has_key(token) and x[token]!=None) :

That looks correct.  Thankfully Python does have short-circuit
evaluation.  Note that if you normally expect x[token] to have a value,
you might restructure the code a bit to use try/except.

>b) RE's.
>   [perl]
>   if ($mytext !~ /^\s$/)
>
>   [python]
>   if not (re.match('^\s$'), mytext)

I think you want

   if not (re.match('^\s$', mytext)) :
or
   if not (re.match('^\s*$', mytext)) :

(I think that Perl code has a bug in it by not including '*', but I
could be wrong.)
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