Regular expressions

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head at hotmail.invalid>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:42:37 -0600, Tim Chase
> <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>
> >On 2015-11-02 20:09, Seymore4Head wrote:
> >> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end of
> >> the line is an asterisk
> >
> >Why use a regular expression?
> >
> >  if line[-1] == '*':
> >    yep(line)
> >  else:
> >    nope(line)
> >
> >-tkc
> >
> >
> Because that is the part of Python I am trying to learn at the moment.
>

Are we to infer that you were aware of doing the   if line[-1] == '*': ...
, but just wanted to learn how to do the same thing with regex? Or that you
heard about regexes and thought that would be the way to solve your puzzle?

> Thanks
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