Comments on: Just Answer the Question, Dammit! http://blog.xcski.com/2004/05/04/just-answer-the-question-dammit Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:42:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: James http://blog.xcski.com/2004/05/04/just-answer-the-question-dammit#comment-215 James Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://xcski.com/wordpress/?p=205#comment-215 Well ... *has a look* You'd probably define <pre>nbcre = re.compile(r'regex that matches the 4 hour warning goes here', re,IGNORECASE)</pre> up the top (under [pra]cre) Then in findaddr(msg), add <pre>elif state == 1 and nbcre.match(line):<br /> return Stop</pre> This would only work if the 4 hour warning line came after the initial "failed delivery" line, but the logic should be easy enough to handle. BTW, good luck with learning Python, it's one of the better languages out there (idiots on the Mailman list aside). The regex handling can be quite subtle though (watch out for the difference between match and search). Well … *has a look*

You’d probably define 

nbcre = re.compile(r'regex that matches the 4 hour warning goes here', re,IGNORECASE)

up the top (under [pra]cre)

Then in findaddr(msg), add 

elif state == 1 and nbcre.match(line):    return Stop

This would only work if the 4 hour warning line came after the initial “failed delivery” line, but the logic should be easy enough to handle.

BTW, good luck with learning Python, it’s one of the better languages out there (idiots on the Mailman list aside). The regex handling can be quite subtle though (watch out for the difference between match and search).

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