Am Dienstag 11 April 2006 21:16 schrieb Michael McGarry: > I am testing it with grep. (i.e., grep -e '(and|or|xor)\s*#' myfile) Test it with Python's re-module, then. \s for matching Whitespace is specific to Python (AFAIK). And as you've asked in a Python Newsgroup, you'll get Python-answers here. --- Heiko.