> If you want to anchor the regex at the start position 'pos' then use
> the 'match' method instead.
The wickedly problem is that matching at position 'pos' is not a
requirement, its an option. Look again at my 2nd example, the
r'(\=|.)...' part, which (of course wrongly) assumes that \= means
'ma
The thing is that the (\=|...) group is not really part of the match.
I think this gives you more the idea what I want
reo = re.compile( r'(\=|.)...' );
while True
mo = reo.search(text,pos)
if not mo: break
if text[mo.start()] == '\\'
# a pseudo match. continue after the backslash
else
The thing is that the (\=|...) group is not really part of the match.
I think this gives you more the idea what I want
reo = re.compile( r'(\=|.)...' );
while True
mo = reo.search(text,pos)
if not mo: break
if text[mo.start()] == '\\'
# a pseudo match. continue after the backslash
else
>From the documentation:
7.2.4. Regular Expression Objects, search(string[, pos[, endpos]])
... the '^' pattern character matches at the real beginning of the
string and at positions just after a newline, but not necessarily at
the index where the search is to start
But I'd like to do just th
