Alister writes: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:48:00 +0300, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > > > iMath writes: > > > >> I only know the dollar sign ($) will match a pattern from the end > >> of a string, but which method does it work with, re.match() or > >> re.search() > > > > It works with both. With re.match, the pattern has to match at the > > start of the string _and_ the $ has to match the end of the string > > (or a line); re.search scans the string until it finds a suitable > > start. > > > > What was the weird character that you used as a question mark? I > > removed them because they confuse the newsreader I use. > > It shows fine in my news reader, perhaps you should consider changing to > one that works properly (btw I am using pan on a fedora 17 netbook)
I was just curious why anyone would use anything other than the ASCII question mark as an ordinary question mark when writing in English in a newsgroup. The post had this: 0000520 61 72 63 68 28 29 20 20 ef bc 9f 0a a r c h ( ) sp sp o < us nl od is showing (ef bc 9f) as (o < us) but since they are not individual characters anyway, never mind that. Google tells me (ef bc 9f) is UTF-8 for U+FF1F FULLWIDTH QUESTION MARK, so now I basically have my answer as to what it is, though still not as to why one would use it. The ordinary question mark would look like this: 0000000 61 72 63 68 28 29 20 3f 0a a r c h ( ) sp ? nl -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list