On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:45:49 -0700, Christopher wrote:
> I have the following problem:
>
>>>> t="Python26"
>>>> import re
>>>> re.sub(r"python\d\d", "Python27", t)
> 'Python26'
>>>> re.sub(r"python\d\d", "Python27", t, re.IGNORECASE)
> 'Python26'
>>>> re.sub(r"Python\d\d", "Python27", t, re.IGNORECASE)
> 'Python27'
> Is this a known bug? Is it by design for some odd reason?
>>> help(re.sub)
Help on function sub in module re:
sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0)
...
You're passing re.IGNORECASE (which happens to equal 2) as a count
argument, not as a flag. Try this instead:
>>> re.sub(r"python\d\d" + '(?i)', "Python27", t)
'Python27'
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