On Jul 14, 12:05 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to delimit sentences in a block of text by defining the > end-of-sentence marker as a period followed by a space followed by an > uppercase letter or end-of-string. > > I'd imagine the regex for that would look something like: > [^(?:[A-Z]|$)]\.\s+(?=[A-Z]|$) > > However, Python keeps giving me an "unbalanced parenthesis" error for > the [^] part. If this isn't valid regex syntax, how else would I match > a block of text that doesn't the delimiter pattern? > What is the [^(?:[A-Z]|$)] part meant to be doing? Is it meant to be matching everything up to the end of the sentence?
[...] is a character class, so Python is parsing the character class as: [^(?:[A-Z]|$)] ^^^^^^^^^^ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
