re.search over a list

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Pat a écrit :
> While I can use a for loop looking for a match on a list, I was 
> wondering if there was a one-liner way.
> 
> In particular, one of my RE's looks like this '^somestring$' so I can't 
> just do this: re.search( '^somestring$', str( mylist ) )
> 
> I'm not smart enough (total newbie) to code up a generator expression 
> and I was wondering if I'm missing something obvious.

words = ['foo', 'bar', 'somestring', 'baaz']
re.search(r"^somestring$", "\n".join(words), re.MULTILINE)


> I love succinct but clearly understandable code.

separator.join(sequence_of_strings) is a very common python idiom, so 
you can consider it as readable.