Yoav enlightened us with:
> I am trying the following:
>
> re.search(r'\\[^"\\]+(?=("?$))', "c:\ret_files")
>
> and I get a return of NoneType, and I have no idea why.
Because you don't match a carriage return "\r".
> I know that I missing something here, but I really can't figure out
> why (I bet it's something obvious).
Use forward slashes instead of backward slashes. And go nag at
Microsoft for using the most widely used escape character as a path
separator...
Sybren
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