On Oct 16, 9:51 am, MRAB wrote:
> What do you mean "blow up"? It worked for me in Python v2.6.2.
My bad. False alarm. This was one of those cases where a bug in
another area appears like a bug in a different area.
Thank for the help.
cs
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Chris Seberino wrote:
What does this line do?...
input_ = re.sub("([a-zA-Z]+)", '"\\1"', input_)
Why don't you try it?
Does it remove parentheses from words?
e.g. (foo) -> foo ???
No, it puts quotes around them.
I'd like to replace [a-zA-Z] with \w but \w makes it blow up.
In other word
Chris Seberino wrote:
What does this line do?...
input_ = re.sub("([a-zA-Z]+)", '"\\1"', input_)
Does it remove parentheses from words?
e.g. (foo) -> foo ???
I'd like to replace [a-zA-Z] with \w but \w makes it blow up.
In other words, re.sub("(\w+)", '"\\1"', input_) blows up.
Why?
cs
