Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 19 03:31:53 EDT 2000

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"William Tanksley" <wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote in message
news:slrn8sd3ed.9rf.wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net...
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> cat /scripts/movies/brian/* | grep "\\bjudea" | grep "\\bfront\\b"
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> The direct translation is reasonably obvious (using the fileinput, glob,
> and re modules).  My laziness is currently stopping me from finding a
> non-re solution, but a truly pythonic solution wouldn't have to use re.

Non-re solutions would have a hard time with the word-boundary
concept in general.


Alex

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