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[loril at mmrd.com]

not exactly sure what you are asking but I would do something like:

someList = ["one", "two", "three"]

if not x in someList:
    # DO YOUR STUFF
else:
    print "ERROR: %s is in list"%x



mehta at mama.indstate.edu wrote:

> how can I specify not to match strings like
>  donot match "one" | "two" | "three"
>
>   (one|two|three) could match any string as one or two or three
> but I want them not to matched at that position.
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