On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 1:17:56 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2017 15:33, CM wrote: > > > On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 7:59:01 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > [...] > >> Start by printing repr(candidate_text) and see what you really have. > > > > Yes, that did it. The repr of that one was, in fact: > > > > u'match /r' > > Are you sure it is a forward-slash /r rather than backslash \r?
No, you're right, it was a backslash \r. Should have pasted it. Good catch. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list