On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 07:31 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > return re.match("^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$", convert)
That needs to be either return re.match(r"^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$", convert) or return re.match("^1?$|^(11+?)\\1+$", convert) in order to prevent "\1" from being read as "\x01". -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list