Neat! I didn't realize that re.sub could take a function as an
argument. Thanks.
Lorin
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> Is there some equivalent feature in Python regexps?
cpp_pat = re.compile('(/\*.*?\*/)|(".*?")', re.S)
def subfunc(match):
if match.group(2):
return match.group(2)
else:
return ''
stripped_c_code = cpp_pat.sub(subfunc, c_code)
...I suppose this is what the Perl code might do, but
> Is there some equivalent feature in Python regexps?
cpp_pat = re.compile('(/\*.*?\*/)|(".*?")', re.S)
def subfunc(match):
if match.group(2):
return match.group(2)
else:
return ''
stripped_c_code = cpp_pat.sub(subfunc, c_code)
...I suppose this is what the Perl code might do, but
#
import re, sys
def q(c):
"""Returns a regular expression that matches a region delimited by c,
inside which c may be escaped with a backslash"""
return r"%s(\\.|[^%s])*%s" % (c, c, c)
single_quoted_string = q('
