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# Tim Hatch -- thatch@google.com
# hands you regex?
# https://github.com/google/sre_yield
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import sys
sys.path.append('/Users/thatch/code/sre_yield_thatch')
import sre_yield
reload(sre_yield)
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<module 'sre_yield' from '/Users/thatch/code/sre_yield_thatch/sre_yield.pyc'>
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v = sre_yield.AllStrings('storage-(testing|current|next)|ad(spam)?')
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len(v) # yep, it looks like a sequence
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5
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list(v) # explicitly, for printing
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['storage-testing', 'storage-current', 'storage-next', 'ad', 'adspam']
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'storage-testing' in v
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True
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'storage-foo' in v
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False
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# I actually found another use, for checking bigraphs for presidents!
# From http://xkcd.com/1313/
print ' '.join(sre_yield.AllStrings('bu|[rn]t|[coy]e|[mtg]a|j|iso|n[hl]|[ae]d|lev|sh|[lnd]i|[po]o|ls'))

bu rt nt ce oe ye ma ta ga j iso nh nl ad ed lev sh li ni di po oo ls
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