regex function driving me nuts

[Vlastimil Brom]

2012/10/23 MartinD. <cyberdicks at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Python.
> Does someone has an idea what's wrong.  I tried everything. The only regex that is tested is the last one in a whole list of regex in keywords.txt
> Thanks!
> Martin
>
>
> ########
> def checkKeywords( str, lstKeywords ):
>
>         for regex in lstKeywords:
>                 match = re.search(regex, str,re.IGNORECASE)
>                 # If-statement after search() tests if it succeeded
>                 if match:
>                         print match.group() ##just debugging
>                         return match.group() ## 'found!
>
>         return
>
> #########
>
> keywords1 = [line for line in open('keywords1.txt')]
> resultKeywords1 = checkKeywords("string_to_test",keywords1)
> print resultKeywords1
>
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Hi,
just a wild guess, as I don't have access to  containing the list of
potentially problematic regex patterns
does:
keywords1 = [line.strip() for line in open('keywords1.txt')]
possibly fix yout problem?
the lines of the file iterator also preserve newlines, which might not
be expected in your keywords, strip() removes (be default) any
starting and tryiling whitespace.

hth,
  vbr