python regular expression help

liupeng liupeng at 18mail.cn
Wed Apr 11 21:41:30 EDT 2007


pattern = re.compile(r'\w+\s*=\s*[0-9]*.[0-9]*\s*')
lists = pattern.findall(s)
print lists
['a=4 ', 'b=3.4 ', 'c=4.5']
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:10:07PM -0700, Qilong Ren wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
> 
> I am extracting some information from a given string using python RE. The
> string is ,for example,
>    s = 'a = 4 b =3.4 5.4 c = 4.5'
> What I want is :
>    a = 4
>     b = 3.4 5.4
>    c = 4.5
> Right now I use :
>    pattern = re.compile(r'\w+\s*=\s*.*?\s+')
>    lists = pattern.findall(s)
> It works for the string like 'a = 4 b = 3.4 c = 4.5', but does not work with
> strings like 'a=4 b=3.4 5.4 c = 4.5'
> 
> Any suggestion?
> 
> Thanks,Qilong
> 
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