On 08/07/2010 08:51 PM, Νίκος wrote: > On 7 Αύγ, 21:24, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > >> Use group capture: >> >> found = re.match(r'<!-- (\d+) -->', firstline).group(1) >> print(page_id) > > Worked like a charm! Thanks a lot! > > So match method here not only searched for the string representation > of the number but also convert it to integer as well? > > r stand for retrieve the string here?
r"xyz" is a raw string literal. That means that backslash escapes are turned off -- r'\n' == '\\n' > > and group? > > Wehn a regex searched a .txt file when is retrieving something for it > always retrieve it as string right? or can get it as a number as well? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
