[Zope] Finding a phone number in a python script

Dennis Allison allison@sumeru.stanford.EDU
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:27:53 -0700


Faced with similar problems, I enabled regular expression search in 
Python Scripts (see the README in the product for instructions). 
IMHO a risks/reward analysis for the re module easily justifies its
inclusion.

Andreas Tille wrote:

Use an external method.

Schmidt, Allen J. wrote:

>I have a block of text that contains a phone number in the format of
>888/123-4567 and I need to identify that sequence when it occurs and somehow
>extract it, and return it to Zope without the slash or the dash.
>
>Without regex in Python scripts, is there any way to do this? 
>