On 01/10/12 10:49, Roy Smith wrote:
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.
You're right (easily testable) in your suspicions that the second
space is ignored in this case. I suppose the documentation could
be tweaked to read "immediately preceded".
-tkc
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