Problem creating a regular expression to parse open-iscsi, iscsiadm output (help?)

[rice.stew at gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:07:33 PM UTC-4, Kevin LaTona wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2013, at 7:42 AM, Kevin LaTona <lists at studiosola.com> wrote:
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> > With the following code tweaks in Python 2.7.2, I find it works with VERBOSE for me, but not without.
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> Of course the regex pattern would work in VERBOSE mode as that was how it was presented.
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> Without VERBOSE each line of the pattern would of needed to have been enclosed in quote or double quote marks.
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> http://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#re.VERBOSE
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Yes. I tested with and without re.VERBOSE along with the required quoting changes. For both cases the oddities persist. Why [\s\S]+ is necessary between the two iSCSI Connection/Session lines is a mystery -- \s+? or similar should be sufficient to swallow the whitespace.

--Eric