RegExp, Python and strings

[Matthias Huening]

Hi,
I'm new to PYTHON and I am trying to find out if PYTHON is the right
language for work with strings (which is what I need most). Therefore
I am playing around with the RE-module.

In PERL I can do things like this (in one line):
$A = "Rossum, Guido van; Harms, Daryl; Python, Franz-Josef";
$A =~ s/([A-Z])[\w]+(?![ \w\-]+,)([ ;-]|$)/$1.$2/g;
This RegExp results in: "Rossum, G. van; Harms, D.; Python, F.-J."

Now I am trying to rebuild this in PYTHON, but I can't get it to work.
Any hints? Should I keep trying? Or should I stick to PERL for those
kinds of string-manipulations?

Matthias

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