RegExp, Python and strings

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <857hhb$3kmi$1 at www.univie.ac.at>,
Matthias Huening <matthias.huening at univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
>In PERL I can do things like this (in one line):
>$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?

You should be able to do that with re.sub(), but the syntax is slightly
different.  Don't forget to use raw strings, though (e.g. r'\w').
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