Ola,
http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/
is a pretty gentle intro
[]'s
Ian

On 5/9/07, gsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is there any documentation of what these do?  I'm assuming that this
> is a Python regular expression?
>
> The reason I ask is becuase I have a line in my urls.py file that
> looks like this
>
> (r'^csi/rso/(news|members)/(\w{1,100})/$',
> 'mysite.rso.views_rso.showtitlepage'),  This works fine when the value
> of my url doesn't contain a "-".  However, sometimes I have a url like
> below
>
> "csi/rso/members/the-test/"
>
> The above errors out becuase of the "-" in the url.  Does anybody know
> what I need to use to accept the character "-" in the url?
>
> Also, on a side note...is it good to have \w{1,100}.  This variable is
> going to be a name.  I'll never know how long a name is and it's
> doubtful that a name would be 100 characters.  Is there a better way
> of capturing this value.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
>
> >
>


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