[Tutor] Regular expression error

[Bernard Lebel]

On 7/28/05, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
 
> This will match a string of digits followed by any non-digit, is that what you want? If you want to restrict it to digits followed by a letter you should use
> r"(\d+|\d+[a-z])"
> 
> Also this will match something like 123A456B, if you want to disallow anything after the letter you need to match the end of the string:
> r"(\d+|\d+[a-z])$"

Nice, thanks a bunch.



 
> The problem is you are calling the module (re) match, not the instance (oPattern) match. re.match() expects the second argument to be a string. Just use
>   oMatch = oPattern.match( str( oArg ), 0 )
> 
> The hint in the error is "expected string or buffer". So you are not giving the expected argument types which should send you to the docs to check...
> 
> Kent

You're right. Thanks for the heads up.

Bernard