On Mar 13, 8:22 pm, "Andrew Rekdal" <<nospam>@comcast.net> wrote: [...] > in your expression above.. > > >>> r = re.compile(r'/\*(.*?)\*/') > > what does the 'r' do?
It means the literal is a 'raw string' : >>> print 'Hi\nthere!' Hi there! >>> print r'Hi\nthere!' Hi\nthere! >>> If you haven't done so already, I suggest reading the tutorial. Here is a link to the relevant section on strings: http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html#SECTION005120000000000000000 -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
