Q: re

[Andrew Kuchling]

"Hwanjo Yu" <hwanjoyu at uiuc.edu> writes:
> >>> matchstr = re.compile(r".*homepage | .*~.*", re.IGNORECASE)
                                        ^ ^

The indicated spaces will be included in the pattern as literals, so
it will try to match "homepage ", which isn't what you want.  Use
either ...homepage|.*... or add the re.VERBOSE flag to the
re.compile() call, which will cause those spaces to be ignored.  (See
the re module's docs for a complete explanation of what re.VERBOSE
does.)

--amk