Re: svn stat on new files

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:40:03PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu> writes:
> > Is the following test what you had in mind?
>
> That regexp
>
> > + for line in stat_output:
> > + if re.match(" +newfile", line):
> > + status = 0
>
> will match both "? newfile" and " newfile". Maybe you want
>
> re.match("^ +newfile", line):
>
> instead, or something like that?

I think using match implies a leading "^":

 If zero or more characters at the beginning of string match the
 regular expression pattern, return a corresponding MatchObject
 instance.[1]

Matt

1. http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node99.html#l2h-722

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