string search and modification

[John Machin]

Jim Britain wrote:

>
> Final integration:
>
>     def identifyHost(self):
>         for line in self.fileContents:
>             if re.search("throttling", line.lower()):
>                   p=r'\[((\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})\]'
>                   ip=re.search(p,line)

A prudent pessimist might test for the complete absence of an IP
address:
    if not ip:
        print "Huh?" # or whatever

>                   if ip.group(1) in self.ignoreList:
>                         continue
>                   if not ip.group(1) in self.banList:
>                          self.banList.append(ip.group(1))
> 
>