| # ---- Double Quote Text ---- | " # match a double quote | ( # - Two Possiblities: | \\. # match two backslashes followed by anything (include newline) | | # OR | [^"] # do not match a single quote | )* # - from zero to many | " # finally match a double quote | | | # ======== OR ======== | | # ---- Single Quote Text ---- | ' # match a single quote | ( # - Two Possiblities: | \\. # match two backslashes followed by anything (include newline) | | # OR | [^'] # do not match a single quote | )* # - from zero to many | ' # finally match a single quote | """, DOTALL|VERBOSE)
Used this before (minus those | at the beginning) to find double quotes and single quotes in a file (there is more to this that looks for C++ and C style quotes but that isn't needed here), perhaps you can take it another step to not do changes to these matches? r""""(\\.|[^"])*"|'(\\.|[^'])*'""", DOTALL) is it in a single line :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
