EventGhost

Posted: **Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:05 pm**

I have a bit of code that is failing and I don't know why:

import re

re.sub(r'^[ \t\r\n]+|[ \t\r\n]+$', '', self.LG_Serial_1_result)

m = re.match(r'^a \d{1,2} OK(\d{1,2})x$', self.LG_Serial_1_result)

try:
test = self.LG_Serial_1_result[m.start():m.stop()]

print "Device feedback = " + self.LG_Serial_1_result[m.start():m.stop()]
except:
print "Unkown response - " + self.LG_Serial_1_result

It works in every tester for regex that I have tried, but does not get a match with this code. What am I doing wrong ?

I get Unkown response - a 01 OK01x everytime.

Posted: **Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:41 pm**

Try adding print sys.exc_info() in your except clause. When an exception occurs you should see what the error was so you can fix it. Probably the value returned by m.start() or m.stop() is something unexpected.

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import re, sys

re.sub('^[ \t\r\n]+|[ \t\r\n]+$', '', self.LG_Serial_1_result)
m = re.match('^a \d{1,2} OK(\d{1,2})x$', self.LG_Serial_1_result)

try:
    test = self.LG_Serial_1_result[m.start():m.stop()]
    print "Device feedback = " + self.LG_Serial_1_result[m.start():m.stop()]
except:
    print "Unkown response - " + self.LG_Serial_1_result
    print sys.exc_info()

-jinxdone

Posted: **Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:44 am**

I added the statement and the output is

(<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>, AttributeError('stop',), <traceback object at 0x047F30F8>)

Posted: **Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:54 am**

I found it. It is m.end()...not m.stop(). Thanks for the help.

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