help with looping, re.search, multiple indexing

[Peter Otten]

Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:

> How do I add another index inside a re.search?
> 
> I want to add
> for j in [96,97,98,99]
>     BASE = re.search ...
>     sh.Cells97...
>     for i ....
> 
> so that the Table 96 within the re.search(s) becomes Table 96, Table 97,
> Table 98, Table 99 but don't know how to add a second index within the
> re.search since I already have %char in match = re.search ... " %char,
> neuro ...

You can make format strings with an arbitrary number of values by providing
a tuple

r"Table %d.*?%s.*?\n.*?\d(.*?)\n.*?" % (j, char)

or a dict

r"Table %(table)d.*?%(char)s.*?\n.*?\d(.*?)\n.*?" % dict(table=j, char=char)

on the right side of the % operator.

http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html

Peter