regular expression: perl ==> python

Doug Holton insert at spam.here
Wed Dec 22 10:20:37 EST 2004


Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> "JZ" <wnebfynj at mnovryyb.pbz> wrote:
> 
> 
>>import re
>>line = "The food is under the bar in the barn."
>>if re.search(r'foo(.*)bar',line):
>>  print 'got %s\n' % _.group(1)
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "jz.py", line 4, in ?
>     print 'got %s\n' % _.group(1)
> NameError: name '_' is not defined

He was using the python interactive prompt, which I suspect you already 
knew.



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