The docs for re.VERBOSE say, "Whitespace within the pattern is ignored, except when [...] preceded by an unescaped backslash". It's unclear exactly what that means. If my pattern is:
<backslash><space><space> is the second space considered to be preceded by a backslash, and thus taken literally, or does the backslash only apply to the first <space>? I suspect the latter, but it's somewhat ambiguous. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
