Question

I also tried [a-zA-Z]{2,}-\d+ but with the same results

def verify_commit_text(tags):
    for line in tags:
        if re.match('^NO-TIK',line):
            return True
        elif re.match('^NO-REVIEW', line):
            return True
        elif re.match('[a-zA-Z]-[0-9][0-9]', line):
            return True
        else:
            return False
if __name__ == '__main__':
    commit_text_verified = verify_commit_text(os.popen('hg tip --template "{desc}"'));
    #commit_text_verified = verify_commit_text(os.popen('hg log -r $1  --template "{desc}"'));
    if (commit_text_verified):
        sys.exit(0)
    else:
        print >> sys.stderr, ('[obey the rules!]')
        sys.exit(1);

if i use a text "JIRA-1234" the regex in :

 elif re.match('[a-zA-Z]-[0-9][0-9]', line):

does not seem to work and i get:

[obey the rules!]

on stdout.

Answer 1

The regex is working exactly as you’ve specified it .. it is searching for 1 character and 1 digit. You probably want something like

re.match(r'[a-zA-Z]+-\d+\Z', line)

Further, always prefix regular expression strings with an ‘r’ as in the above. Or it will bite you.