On May 29, 11:24 am, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
> andrew cooke <and...@acooke.org> wrote:
> > Please can someone explain why the following fails:
>
> > from re import compile
>
> > p = compile(r'\bword\b')
> > m = p.match(' word ')
> > assert m
[...]
> You misunderstand what \b does: it doesn't match a space, it matches a 0
> length string on a boundary between a non-word and a word.
[...]
That's what I thought it did... Then I read the docs and confused
"empty string" with "space"(!) and convinced myself otherwise. I
think I am going senile.
Thanks very much!
Andrew
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