On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 03:24 +0100, Gilles Ganault wrote: > Hello > > I've been reading tutorials on regexes in Python, but I still > don't get it: > > ======== > #!/usr/bin/python > > #myscript.py 0123456789 > > import sys,re > > #Turn 0123456789 into 01.23.45.67.89 > p = re.compile('(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)') > phone = p.sub('\1.\2.\3.\4.\5',sys.argv[1]) > print phone > ======== > > => Python displays "...." instead. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? > > Thank you.
Use raw strings for re expressions. r'this is a raw string' 'this is not' p = re.compile(r'(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)') phone = p.sub(r'\1.\2.\3.\4.\5',sys.argv[1]) Should clear up your problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list