sorry i forgot to escape the question mark... > [code] > import re > p = re.compile(r'[A-Za-z]:\\([^/:\*?"<>\|])*')
even when I escape that it still doesnt work as expected. p = re.compile(r'[A-Za-z]:\\([^/:\*\?"<>\|])*') p.match('c:\test') still returns None. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list