Finding Peoples' Names in Files

brad byte8bits at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 11:40:33 EDT 2007


cokofreedom at gmail.com wrote:
> On Oct 11, 5:22 pm, brad <byte8b... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Crazy question, but has anyone attempted this or seen Python code that
>> does? For example, if a text file contained 'Guido' and or 'Robert' and
>> or 'Susan', then we should return True, otherwise return False.
> 
> Can't you just use the string function .findall() ?
> 

I mean *any* possible person's name... I don't *know* the names 
beforehand :)



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