Parsing text

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Wed May 6 15:05:04 EDT 2009


iainemsley wrote:
> for scene in text.split('Scene'):
>     num = re.compile("^\s\[0-9, i{1,4}, v]", re.I)
>     textNum = num.match(scene)

Not related to your problem, but to your code - I'd write this as follows:

	match_scene_num = re.compile("^\s\[0-9, i{1,4}, v]", re.I).match

	for scene_section in text.split('Scene'):
	    text_num = match_scene_num(scene_section)

This makes the code more readable and avoids unnecessary work inside the loop.

Stefan



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