Re: regular expression

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.41.1313479583.27778.python-l...@python.org>,
 Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote:

> pat = re.compile("^ *(\\([^)]+\\))", re.MULTILINE)

First rule of regexes in Python is to always use raw strings, to 
eliminate the doubled backslashes:

> pat = re.compile(r"^ *(\([^)]+\))", re.MULTILINE)

Is easier to read.
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