Pattern Search Regular Expression

[Joshua Landau]

On 15 June 2013 11:18, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I tend to reach for string methods rather than an RE so will something like
> this suit you?
>
> c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>type a.py
> for s in ("In the ocean",
>           "On the ocean",
>           "By the ocean",
>           "In this group",
>           "In this group",
>           "By the new group"):
>     print(' '.join(s.split()[1:-1]))
>
>
> c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>a
> the
> the
> the
> this
> this
> the new

Careful - " ".join(s.split()) != s

Eg:
>>> " ".join("s\ns".split())
's s'

It's pedantry, but true.