Re: re behaving strangely

Thanks for pointing out my utter stupidity :) It's been a long day. -Josh On 6/9/05, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Josh Close wrote: > > This is not returning a match > > > > re.compile( r'b' ).search( 'back', re.I ) > > > > Anyone know why this is? > > Yes: > >>> import re > >>>

Re: re behaving strangely

Josh Close wrote: > This is not returning a match > > re.compile( r'b' ).search( 'back', re.I ) > > Anyone know why this is? Yes: >>> import re >>> re.compile(r'b').search('back', re.I) >>> re.compile(r'b').search('back') <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00AF3D78> >>> re.compile(r'b', re.I).searc

re behaving strangely

This is not returning a match re.compile( r'b' ).search( 'back', re.I ) Anyone know why this is? -- -Josh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list