On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 08:13:51 -0700, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>On 11/04/2015 01:57 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
>> and then headed for the man page. Apparently there is a subset
>> called "basic regular expressions":
>>
>> """> Basic vs Extended Regular Expressions
>> In basic regular expressions the meta-characters ?, +, {, |, (,
>> and ) lose their special meaning; instead use the backslashed
>> versions \?, \+, \{, \|, \(, and \).
>> """
>
>Good catch. I think this must have been what my brain was thinking when
>I commented about grep and regular expressions earlier. I checked the
>man page but didn't read down far enough.
>
>I was still technically wrong though.
>
>It's neat to learn so much on these tangents that the python list goes
>on frequently. Hope the OP is still lurking, reading all these comments,
>though I suspect he's not.
>
I am still here, but I have to admit I am not picking up too much.
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