On Feb 14, 4:38 am, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Pythonistas, > > Consider the regular expression "$*". Compilation fails with the > exception, "sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat". > > Consider the regular expression "(?=$)*". As far as I know it is > equivalent. It does not fail to compile. > > Why the inconsistency? What's going on here? > > -- Devin
$ is a meta character for regular expressions. Use '\$*', which does compile. Regards, Vinay Sajip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
