On 2007-11-27, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>     This won't compile for me:
>
>
> regex = re.compile('(.*\\).*')
>
>     I get the error:
>      sre_constants.error: unbalanced parenthesis

Hint 1: Always assume that errors are in your own code. Blaming
library code and language implementations will get you nowhere
most of the time.

Hint 2: regular expressions and Python strings use the same
escape character.

Hint 3: Consult the Python documentation about raw strings, and
what they are meant for.

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