Regular expression negative look-ahead

[Jason Friedman]

> Huh, did not realize that endswith takes a list.  I'll remember that in
> the future.
>
> This need is actually for http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net/, which allows
> one to include only tables/views that match a pattern.
>
> Either there is a bug in Schemaspy's code or Java's implementation of
> regular expressions is different than Python's or there is a flaw in my
> logic, because the pattern I verify using Python produces different results
> when used with Schemaspy.  I suppose I'll open a bug there unless I can
> find the aforementioned flaw.
>
>
> if not table_name.endswith(('_CTL', '_DEL', '_RUN')):
>>     # Do whatever
>>
>>
> Shoot, sorry, did not mean to top-post.
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