Problem with re.match - Newbie needs some advice

[John Machin]

rh0dium wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>I can't seem to get into the
> second re.match.  Can someone point out my apparent error?

errorS:
1. Imprecision -- the problem is in the *third* re.match ...
2. ... which should be re.search
3. Using re at all when simple string methods would do -- see below

[snip]
>         for line in self.cpudata:
>             # Remove the newlines..
>             ### line=line.strip()
               tokens = line.split()
>             ### if re.match(r"^processor\s+:", line):
               if tokens[0] == "processor":
>                 cpucount += 1
>             ### if re.match(r"^flags\s+:", line):
               elif tokens[0] == "flags" and "ht" in tokens:
>                 ### flags=re.split(r":\s",line)
>                 #### print "Found flags", flags[1]
>                 ### if re.match(r"\bht\b",flags[1]):
>                 print "HT on"
>                 ht=1