more python3 regex?

[Doug OLeary]

Hey

This one seems like it should be easy but I'm not getting the expected results.

I have a chunk of data over which I can iterate line by line and print out the expected results:

  for l in q.findall(data):
#   if re.match(r'(Name|")', l):
#     continue
    print(l)

$ ./testies.py | wc -l
197

I would like to skip any line that starts with 'Name' or a double quote:

$ ./testies.py | perl -ne 'print if (m{^Name} || m{^"})'                                          
Name IP Address,Site,
"",,7 of 64
Name,IP Address,Site,
"",,,8 of 64
Name,IP Address,Site,
"",,,9 of 64
Name,IP Address,Site,
"",,,10 of 64
Name,IP Address,Site,
"",,,11 of 64
Name IP Address,Site,

$ ./testies.py | perl -ne 'print unless (m{^Name} || m{^"})' | wc -l
186


When I run with the two lines uncommented, *everything* gets skipped:

$ ./testies.py                                          
$

Same thing when I use a pre-defined pattern object:

skippers = re.compile(r'Name|"')
  for l in q.findall(data):
    if skippers.match(l):
      continue
    print(l)

Like I said, this seems like it should be pretty straight forward so I'm obviously missing something basic.  

Any hints/tips/suggestions gratefully accepted.

Doug O'Leary