In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Schüle Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>consider the following code
>
> >>> re.search("[a-z](?i)[a-z]","AA")
><_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x40177e20>
>
>this gives a match
>if we provide an extra group for the first character it still works
>
> >>> re.search("([a-z])(?i)[a-z]","AA").group(1)
>'A'
> >>>
>
>it doesn't matter where (?i) is placed, right?
>the re engine would glance at once on the entire pattern string
>analize it (complain if pattern doesn't make sense, eg invalid)
>and it would be the same as if the option was given expicitely
>as re.IGNORECASE.
>
>Is there a way to switch-off the option resp.
>switch-on the option in the middle of the pattern?
The docs say:
(?iLmsux)
(One or more letters from the set "i", "L", "m", "s", "u", "x".)
The group matches the empty string; the letters set the
corresponding flags (re.I, re.L, re.M, re.S, re.U, re.X) for the
^^^^^^^
entire regular expression. This is useful if you wish to include
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the flags as part of the regular expression, instead of passing a
flag argument to the compile() function.
Some regex packages, but not Python's, support (?-<flag>) and this
allows turning the flag off and on for parts of the regex.
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