Wehrdamned wrote:
> As I understand it, python uses a pcre engine to work with regular
> expression.
[...]
> My question is, then, why expressions like :
>>>> re.compile('asd|(?-i:QWE)', re.I)
[...]
> don't work? They are ok in perl...
>From http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html:
This module provides regular expression matching operations
*similar* to those found in Perl.
Similar != the same. See http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html for
details about valid syntax for regular expressions in Python.
Cheers,
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