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I m stuck with re.findall . Basically, below code, I m trying to find whether certain patches as defined by patches list is applied to the Oracle home or not.

#!/usr/bin/python
import re
import subprocess

s = subprocess.check_output(["opatch", "lsinventory"])
output = s.decode("utf-8")

patches = [ 27923320,27547329,21463894]

searchObj = re.findall(r patches[1:], output, re.M|re.I)
if searchObj:
   print ( searchObj.group(),"detected")
else:
   print ("Nothing found!!")

below the error

Error:
/u02/scripts/Patching/venv/bin/python /u02/scripts/Patching/Patch.py
  File "/u02/scripts/Patching/Patch.py", line 16
    searchObj = re.findall(r patches[1:], output, re.M|re.I)
                                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Process finished with exit code 1

Can you show us what you get as an output from subprocess.check_output()? Probably [with some transformation of the output] you can use set operations and not RegEx.
The error is because r patches[1:] is not valid code - that's clear

Yes, it's the syntax error. Any other way to pass list values as patterns to re.search or re.findall ?

you need to use RegEx. If you are not familiar with regex expression syntax read https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.htm...ion-syntax and also https://www.regular-expressions.info/
you can use http://regex101.com to test your regex expression

I was able to figure out the correct usage of re.findall but I want each list value in the new line.
Can we use for loop to pass list value to re.findall and then print each output in a new line ?

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import re
import subprocess


s = subprocess.check_output(["opatch", "lsinventory"])
output = s.decode("utf-8")


patches = [27923320, 27547329, 21463894]

searchObj = re.findall(str(patches), output, re.M|re.I)
if searchObj:
   print('Patch', patches, "detected")
else:
   print("Nothing found!!")

The output

Patch [27923320, 27547329, 21463894] detected

You have a list of numbers. Regexes are for strings, not lists and not numbers. Do you want to test the regex on the string version of the numbers???

(Oct-18-2018, 01:07 PM)ichabod801 Wrote: [ -> ]Do you want to test the regex on the string version of the numbers???

I think OP want to create RegEx pattern(s) from this list of numbers and test the output they get from subprocess.check_output()

I was able to achieve via below modifications. Thanks everyone for all the help and support

#!/usr/bin/python

import re
import subprocess


s = subprocess.check_output(["opatch", "lsinventory"])
output = s.decode("utf-8")


patches = [27923320, 27547329, 21463894, 12345, 99999]

patches_found = set(re.findall(r'\b(?:%s)\b' % '|'.join(map(str, patches)), output))
patches_missing = set(map(str, patches)) - patches_found

if patches_found:
    print('Patch', patches_found, "detected")

if patches_missing:
    print("Patch", patches_missing, "missing")
    

(Oct-20-2018, 05:57 AM)alinaveed786 Wrote: [ -> ]I was able to achieve via below modifications. Thanks everyone for all the help and support

#!/usr/bin/python

import re
import subprocess


s = subprocess.check_output(["opatch", "lsinventory"])
output = s.decode("utf-8")


patches = [27923320, 27547329, 21463894, 12345, 99999]

patches_found = set(re.findall(r'\b(?:%s)\b' % '|'.join(map(str, patches)), output))
patches_missing = set(map(str, patches)) - patches_found

if patches_found:
    print('Patch', patches_found, "detected")

if patches_missing:
    print("Patch", patches_missing, "missing")
    

You convert patches elements to strings twice - would not it have been easier to just define them as strings?!