Re: re.sub() problem (regular expression)

2007-12-13 Thread Rick Dooling
On Dec 13, 9:00 pm, Davy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's "\1" and the whole re.sub() mean? > Read about backreferences here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/brackets.html Also see the entry on parentheses here: http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html rick -- http://mail.python.or

re.sub() problem (regular expression)

2007-12-13 Thread Davy
Hi all, I have read a re.sub() that confused me. s = 'P & Q' s = re.sub(r'([a-zA-Z0-9_.]+)', r'Expr("\1")', s) What's "\1" and the whole re.sub() mean? Best regards, Davy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: re.sub problem

2006-03-31 Thread RunLevelZero
Glad I could help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: re.sub problem

2006-03-31 Thread veracon
Thanks a lot! Compiling with re.DOTALL did fix my problem for the most part; there still are a few problems with my code, but I think I can fix those myself. Again, thanks! > Okay I just woke up and haven't had enough coffee so if I'm off here > please forgive me. Are you saying that if there is

Re: re.sub problem

2006-03-31 Thread RunLevelZero
Okay I just woke up and haven't had enough coffee so if I'm off here please forgive me. Are you saying that if there is an emptly line then it borks? If so just use re.S ( re.DOTALL ) and that should take care of it. It will treat the ( . ) special. Otherwise it ignores new lines. -- http://m

Re: re.sub problem

2006-03-31 Thread veracon
Actually, it happens in general when there is more than one linebreak between the open and close statements; not only when there are empty lines. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

re.sub problem

2006-03-31 Thread veracon
I'm trying to make a (tiny) template system (Cheetah and like have far more than what I need), but I've run into a problem. To simplify everything, I've decided to make for loops matching the indentation level of the open and close statements; it appears to work fine, but apparently it chokes once