re.search when used within an if/else fails

Tue Nov 20 14:09:12 EST 2012

On Monday, November 19, 2012 7:29:20 PM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 2012年11月20日 01:24:54 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>> - use "if something is None", not == None.
>>> Steven

i will not include line #'s in the future, point taken
i will change ==/!= to is/is not as most people pointed out.
there is no else because it doesn't work.
i used eclipse in debug mode and a command line execution of the code, both behave the same way
#if re.search( "rsrvd", sigName ) : #version a
#if re.search( "rsrvd", sigName ) == None : #version b
if re.search( "rsrvd", sigName ) is None : #version bb
 print sigName 
 newVal = "%s%s" % ('1'*signal['bits'] , newVal ) 
#else: #version c
if re.search( "rsrvd", sigName ) != None : #version d
 print sigName 
 newVal = "%s%s" % ( '0'*signal['bits'],> newVal ) 
i can use either version a/b the else clause (version c) will not execute.
fortunately, with version bb, the else clause will execute!! 
thanks for the input all..
kevin
Now if i change