Perl s/ To Python?

[John Abel]

JZ wrote:

>Dnia Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:57:21 +0100, John Abel napisał(a):
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>>$testVar =~ s#/mail/.*$##g
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>>The only way I can think of doing it, is:
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>>mailPos = testVar.find( "mail" )
>>remainder =  testVar[ :mailPos ]
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>>Any ideas would be appreciated.  I'm iterating over a lot of entries, 
>>and running these lines for each entry.
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>import re
>testVar = re.compile(r'/mail/.*$').sub('', testVar) 
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>JZ
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That's brill.  Never even thought if using re.  Thank you!

J