On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:53:14 -0400, Peter Hansen wrote: > The re docs clearly say this is not the case: > > ''' > [] > Used to indicate a set of characters. Characters can be listed > individually, or a range of characters can be indicated by giving two > characters and separating them by a "-". Special characters are not active > inside sets. > ''' > > Note the last sentence in the above quotation... > > -Peter
Aren't regexes /fun/? Also from that passage, Simon, note the "-" right in front of [-\[\]0-9,. ], another one that's tripped me up more than once. Wheeee! "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I know, I'll use regular expressions.'' Now they have two problems." - jwz http://www.jwz.org/hacks/marginal.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
