Hi everybody, I'm having a ball with the power of regular expression but I stumbled on something I don't quite understand:
theOriginalString = "spam:(?P<first>.*) ham:(?P<second>.*)" aReplacementPattern = "\(\?P<first>.*\)" aReplacementString= "foo" re.sub(aReplacementPattern , aReplacementString, theOriginalString) results in : "spam:foo" instead, I was expecting: "spam:foo ham:" Why is that? Thanks for your help! Manu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
