Pattern Search Regular Expression

[Denis McMahon]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:05:01 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:42:55 -0700, subhabangalore wrote:
> 
>> Dear Group,
>> 
>> I am trying to search the following pattern in Python.
>> 
>> I have following strings:
>> 
>>  (i)"In the ocean" (ii)"On the ocean" (iii) "By the ocean" (iv) "In
>>  this group" (v) "In this group" (vi) "By the new group"
>>        .....
>> 
>> I want to extract from the first word to the last word, where first
>> word and last word are varying.
>> 
>> I am looking to extract out:
>>   (i) the (ii) the (iii) the (iv) this (v) this (vi) the new
>>       .....
>> 
>> The problem may be handled by converting the string to list and then
>> index of list.
> 
> No need for a regular expression.
> 
> py> sentence = "By the new group"
> py> words = sentence.split()
> py> words[1:-1]
> ['the', 'new']
> 
> Does that help?

I thought OP wanted:

words[words[0],words[-1]]

But that might be just my caffeine deprived misinterpretation of his 
terminology.

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Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com