[triangle-zpug] how to match strings in python

[Chris Calloway]

On 4/2/2009 11:31 AM, Chris Rossi wrote:
> match = []
> for c1,c2 in zip(string_1, string_2):
>    if c1 == c2:
>         match.append(c1)
>    else:
>         break
> match = "".join(match)

This is much better because it uses zip to iterate over two sequences at 
once. That's a Pythonic pattern to remember.

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