re.search

[James Stroud]

Rares Vernica wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Isn't the following code supposed to return ('1994')?
> 
>  >>> re.search('(\d{4})?', '4 1994').groups()
> (None,)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray

The ? is allowing it to not match before it finds the 1994.

Note:

py> re.search('(\d{4})?', '1994 4').groups()
('1994',)

James

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