matching multiple regexs to a single line...

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Sendzimir <lists at battleface.com> writes:

  Alexander> To do this in Python and be able to get at the match if a
  Alexander> regex succeeds means I have to break up the if's because

That's what I usually end up doing

for line in myfile:
  m = r1.match(line)
  if m:
    do_something()
    break

  m = r2.match(line)
  if m:
    do_something_else()
    break
  

John Hunter