Multiline regex help

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 17:32:11 EST 2005


Kent Johnson wrote:
> for line in raw_data:
>     if line.startswith('RelevantInfo1'):
>         info1 = raw_data.next().strip()
>     elif line.startswith('RelevantInfo2'):
>         info2 = raw_data.next().strip()
>     elif line.startswith('RelevantInfo3'):
>         info3 = raw_data.next().strip()
>         scores.setdefault(info1, {}).setdefault(info3, []).append(info2)
>         info1 = info2 = info3 = None

Very pretty. =)  I have to say, I hadn't ever used iterators this way 
before, that is, calling their next method from within a for-loop.  I 
like it. =)

Thanks for opening my mind. ;)

STeVe



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