regex alternation problem

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-04-17 16:57, Eugene Perederey wrote:
> According to documentation re.findall takes a compiled pattern as a
> first argument. So try
> patt = re.compile(r'(am|an)')
> re.findall(patt, s1)
> re.findall(patt, s2)

No, it will take a string pattern, too.

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Robert Kern

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