regex with specific list of string

[Steve Holden]

james_027 wrote:
> hi,
> 
> how do I regex that could check on any of the value that match any one
> of these ... 'jan', 'feb', 'mar', 'apr', 'may', 'jun', 'jul', 'aug',
> 'sep', 'oct', 'nov', 'dec'
> 
> Thanks

 >>> patr = re.compile('jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|nov|oct|dec')
 >>> patr.match("jul")
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7ff28ad8>
 >>> patr.match("nosuch")
 >>>

regards
  Steve
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