Stedents Question

[Geert-Jan Van den Bogaerde]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 22:43, Jeff Shannon wrote:
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> Geert-Jan Van den Bogaerde wrote:
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> > On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 00:45, Tony K wrote:
> > > The question below is a tutorial question that stumps me.  Any suggestions
> > > would be appreciated.
> > > Tony
> > >
> > > Write a Python function findABBC which takes a single string as parameter
> > > and returns all substrings thereof which match the regexp pattern ab+c. You
> > > are NOT allowed to use the re module.
> > >
> >
> > Haven't used regexps in a while, but I believe that just means:
> >
> > def findABBC(str):
> >     return str == "a" + "b" * len(str[1:-1]) + "c"
> 
> Except that the spec was to return all matching substrings.  You're simply
> testing to see if the entire string matches that pattern, and returning a boolean
> true/false.  (This could theoretically be used as a helper function in a
> solution, though I suspect that there's a better way to go about it.)

You are of course quite right. I misread the original question.

Geert-Jan

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