[Tutor] Help with re in Python 3

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

It seems that you are not opening the file properly. You could do
f = file('///Users/joebatt/Desktop/python3.txt','r')
or:
withfile('///Users/joebatt/Desktop/python3.txt','r') as f:
  for line in f:
    m = re.search("[A-Z]{3}[a-z][A-Z]{3}", line)
    if m:
      print("Pattern found")
      print(m.group(0))
 
Cheers!!
Albert-Jan


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>________________________________
>From: Joe Batt <joebatt at hotmail.co.uk>
>To: tutor at python.org
>Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 8:42 PM
>Subject: [Tutor] Help with re in Python 3
>
>
> 
>Hi all,
>Still trying with Python and programming in general…. 
>
>
>I am trying to get a grip with re. I am writing a program to open a text file and scan it for exactly 3 uppercase letters in a row followed by a lowercase followed by exactly 3 uppercase letters. ( i.e.  oooXXXoXXXooo )
>If possible could you explain why I am getting "EOL while scanning string literal" when I try running the following program in Python 3.
>
>
>My program:
>
>
>import re
>regexp=re.compile(r"[a-z]"r"[A-Z]"r"[A-Z]"r"[A-Z]"r"[a-z]"r"[A-Z]"r"[A-Z]"r"[A-Z]"r"[a-z])
>                  
>file=('///Users/joebatt/Desktop/python3.txt','r')
>for line in file.readlines():
>    if regexp.search(line):
>        print("Found value 3 caps followed by lower case followed by 3 caps")
>file.close()
>
>
>If possible could you explain why I am getting "EOL while scanning string literal" when I try running my program in Python 3.
>
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>
>Joe
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