On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:34:56 +0100, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > Dan M <d...@catfolks.net> writes: > >> I took at look at http://docs.python.org/howto/regex.html, especially >> the section titled "The Backslash Plague". I started out trying : > >>>>> import re >>>>> r = re.compile('\\\\x([0-9a-fA-F]{2})') a = "This \xef file \xef has >>>>> \x20 a bunch \xa0 of \xb0 crap \xc0 > > The backslash trickery applies to string literals also, not only > regexps. > > Your string does not have the value you think it has. Double each > backslash (or make your string raw) and you'll get what you expect. > > -- Alain.
D'oh! I hadn't thought of that. If I read my data file in from disk, use the raw string version of the regex, and do the search that way I do indeed get the results I'm looking for. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess I need to think a little deeper into what I'm doing when I escape stuff. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
