Regular expressions

[Erik Max Francis]

Kill Bill wrote:

> Also, if yipee is a variable, what happens when I do?
> 
> re.search("[yipee]*", line):
> 
> This will treat yipee as a string correct?

Yes, a string literal is a string literal is a string literal.

> I want it to treat yipee
> as a
> variable and perform the different combinations on whatever is inside
> the
> variable.

Then you want "[" + yipee + "]*" or "[%s]*" % yipee.

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