"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> You have to quote metacharacters if you want to match them. The escape
> method is useful for this:
>
> >>> re.escape('(a)')
> '\\(a\\)'
Doh! Of course! Thanks everyone.
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At Friday 8/12/2006 02:53, Mike wrote:
I finally simplified my problem down to this simple case:
re.match(r'\\this', r'\\this')
Both the pattern and the string to match are identical raw strings, yet they
don't match. What does match is this:
re.match(r'this', r'\\this')
Perhaps y
Mike wrote:
> I've been having trouble with a regular expression, and I finally simplified
> things down to the point that (a) my example is very simple, and (b) I'm
> totally confused. There are those who would say (b) is normal, but that's
> another thread.
>
> I finally simplified my proble
Mike wrote:
> I've been having trouble with a regular expression, and I finally simplified
> things down to the point that (a) my example is very simple, and (b) I'm
> totally confused. There are those who would say (b) is normal, but that's
> another thread.
>
> I finally simplified my problem dow
