Question

I have created a ban bot for an XMPP server, this is a part of my script:

resources = ['private', 'sergeant', 'staffsergeant']

"""presence detection script here"""
if resource in resources:
    pass
else:
    print "the jid has been banned"
    """ban script here"""

So the code above bans any user that enters unless their resource is private, sergeant or staffsergeant.

I want to change the above script to not ban any of the above resources if and only if they have an integer after the resource name (for example: sergeant343, private5654, etc.), but to ban them if they come without any integer. So jid/sergeant gets banned but jid/sergeant432 passes. The integer could be any number in range(0, 99999). How can I do this?

Answer 1

The solution looks like this:

if resource.rstrip('0123456789') in resources:
    if resource != resource.rstrip('0123456789'):
        print 'ok'
    else:
        print 'banned'
else:
    raise NotImplementedError()  # replace with own code