regexp help

[John Machin]

Paul McGuire wrote:
> from re import *

Perhaps you intended "import re".

> vowels = "aAeEiIoOuU"
> cons = "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzBCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ"
> encodeRe = re.compile(r"([%s])[%s]\1" % (cons,vowels))
> print encodeRe.sub(r"\1",s)
> 
> This is actually a little more complex than you asked - it will search
> for any consonant-vowel-same_consonant triple, and replace it with the
> leading consonant.  To meet your original request, change to:
> 
> from re import *

And again.

> cons = "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzBCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXYZ"
> encodeRe = re.compile(r"([%s])o\1" % cons)
> print encodeRe.sub(r"\1",s)
> 
> Both print "prince".
> 

No they don't. The result is "NameError: name 're' is not defined".