Thanks for pointing out my utter stupidity :) It's been a long day.
-Josh On 6/9/05, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Close wrote: > > This is not returning a match > > > > re.compile( r'b' ).search( 'back', re.I ) > > > > Anyone know why this is? > > Yes: > >>> import re > >>> re.compile(r'b').search('back', re.I) > >>> re.compile(r'b').search('back') > <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00AF3D78> > >>> re.compile(r'b', re.I).search('back') > <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00AF3CD0> > >>> re.compile(r'b', re.I).search('KCAB') > <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00AF3DB0> > > :-) > > -Peter > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- -Josh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list