a string problem

[Maric Michaud]

Le Mardi 13 Juin 2006 15:59, John Salerno a écrit :
> And I'm actually ashamed to admit that I know the RE way, but not the
> regular string manipulation way, if there is one!

eheh,

In [39]: import string

In [40]: sub, s1, s2 = 'string', 're string2, ,string1', 're string2, ,string'

In [41]: sub in [ e.strip(string.punctuation) for e in s1.split() ]
Out[41]: False

In [42]: sub in [ e.strip(string.punctuation) for e in s2.split() ]
Out[42]: True

> This seems like 
> something easy enough to do without REs though.

Yes, but python way seems a little faster

python2.4 -mtimeit -s "import re" "re.match('\bstring\b', 're 
string2, ,string1') and True"
100000 loops, best of 3: 7.3 usec per loop
python2.4 -mtimeit -s "import string" "'string' in [ 
e.strip(string.punctuation) for e in 're string2, ,string1'.split() ]"
100000 loops, best of 3: 6.99 usec per loop


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