issue with regular expressions

[joseph pareti]

Ok, thanks. It works for me.
regards,

Am Di., 22. Okt. 2019 um 11:29 Uhr schrieb Matt Wheeler <m at funkyhat.org>:

>
>
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, 09:44 joseph pareti, <joepareti54 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the following code ends in an exception:
>>
>> import re
>> pattern = 'Sottoscrizione unica soluzione'
>> mylines = []                                # Declare an empty list.
>
> with open ('tmp.txt', 'rt') as myfile:      # Open tmp.txt for reading
>> text.
>>     for myline in myfile:                   # For each line in the file,
>>         mylines.append(myline.rstrip('\n')) # strip newline and add to
>> list.
>> for element in mylines:                     # For each element in the
>> list,
>> #    print(element)
>>    match = re.search(pattern, element)
>>    s = match.start()
>>    e = match.end()
>>    print(element[s:e])
>>
>>
>>
>> F:\October20-2019-RECOVERY\Unicredit_recovery\tmp_re_search>c:\Users\joepareti\Miniconda3\pkgs\python-3.7.1-h8c8aaf0_6\python.exe
>> search_0.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "search_0.py", line 10, in <module>
>>     s = match.start()
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'start'
>>
>> any help? Thanks
>>
>
> Check over the docs for re.match again, you'll see it returns either a
> Match object (which is always truthy), or None.
>
> So a simple solution is to wrap your attempts to use the Match object in
>
> ```
> if match:
>     ...
> ```
>
>>

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