multiple pattern regular expression

[Nick Stinemates]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:50:56AM -0400, python at bdurham.com wrote:
> How about this?
> 
> for line in file:
>     # ignore lines without = assignment
>     if '=' in line:
>         property, value = line.strip().split( '=', 1 )
>         property = property.strip().lower()
>         value = value.strip()
> 
>         # do something with property, value
> 
> Malcolm
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This works until you have:
string=The sum of 2+2=4

For cases where such input my be expected, I use the following regex

import re
str = """a=b
c=d
e=f
string=The sum of 2+2=4""".split("\n")

p = re.compile("([^=]*)=(.*)")

for lines in str:
	key,value=p.findall(lines)[0]
	print key, value


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