regex function driving me nuts

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Stripping the line did it !!!
Thank you very much to all !!! 
Cheers! :-) 
Martin 


Le mardi 23 octobre 2012 16:36:44 UTC-4, Vlastimil Brom a écrit :
> 2012/10/23 MartinD. 
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> > Hi,
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> >
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> > I'm new to Python.
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> > 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
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> > Thanks!
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> > Martin
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> >
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> >
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> > ########
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> > def checkKeywords( str, lstKeywords ):
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> >
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> >         for regex in lstKeywords:
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> >                 match = re.search(regex, str,re.IGNORECASE)
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> >                 # If-statement after search() tests if it succeeded
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> >                 if match:
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> >                         print match.group() ##just debugging
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> >                         return match.group() ## 'found!
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> >
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> >         return
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> >
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> > #########
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> >
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> > keywords1 = [line for line in open('keywords1.txt')]
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> > resultKeywords1 = checkKeywords("string_to_test",keywords1)
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> > print resultKeywords1
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> >
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> > --
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> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> 
> 
> Hi,
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> just a wild guess, as I don't have access to  containing the list of
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> potentially problematic regex patterns
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> does:
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> keywords1 = [line.strip() for line in open('keywords1.txt')]
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> possibly fix yout problem?
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> the lines of the file iterator also preserve newlines, which might not
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> be expected in your keywords, strip() removes (be default) any
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> starting and tryiling whitespace.
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> hth,
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>   vbr