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From: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>
To: Peter Westlake <peter.westlake@pobox.com>
Cc: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>, emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Python help
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:03:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739ve9gje.fsf@columbia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279631312.15948.1385772637@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Peter Westlake's message of "Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:08:32 +0100")

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:08:32 +0100, Peter Westlake wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:58 +0530, "Puneeth" <punchagan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a Pythonic way to do it, tested:

>   import re

>   my_string = "Hello\nWorld"
>   pattern = re.compile('^',re.MULTILINE)
>   my_new_string = re.sub(pattern, '> ', my_string)

> This still might not be quite right, as it will turn "Hello\nWorld\n"
> into "> Hello\n> World\n> ". Avoid that by using a negative lookahead
> for the end of the string:

>   my_string = "Hello\n\nWorld\n"
>   pattern = re.compile('^(?!\Z)',re.MULTILINE)
>   my_new_string = re.sub(pattern, '> ', my_string)
>   print my_new_string

> gives:

>> Hello
>> 
>> World

Although python does not recommend TIMTOWTDI, but I would
use the following function

  s = lambda str: ''.join(['< ' + s for s in str.splitlines(True)])
  s("Hello\n\nWorld\n")

I think it is much nicer and clearer to me -- probably
because I use a lot of haskell.  And the following is the
function s in haskell

  s = unlines . map ("< " ++) . lines

Just my 2c.
-- 
J    c/*    __o/*
X    <\     * (__
Y    */\      <

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-20 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-20 10:47 OT: Python help Carsten Dominik
2010-07-20 11:03 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-07-20 11:13   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-07-20 11:20     ` Puneeth
2010-07-20 11:25       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-07-20 11:28       ` Puneeth
2010-07-20 13:08         ` Peter Westlake
2010-07-20 13:12           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-07-20 18:03           ` Xiao-Yong Jin [this message]
2010-07-20 11:25     ` Giovanni Ridolfi

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