New submission from Mike Lissner: I just ran into a funny corner case I imagine others are aware of. When you write "\b" in Python, it is a single character: "\x08". So if you try to write a regex like:
words = '\b(.*)\b' That won't work. But using a raw string will: words = r'\b(.*)\b' As will escaping it in this horrible fashion: words = '\\b(.*)\\b' I believe this doesn't affect any of the other regex flags, so I wonder if it's worth adding something to the docs to warn about this. I just spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why it seemed like \b wasn't working. A little tip in the docs would have gone a LONG way. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 285751 nosy: Mike.Lissner, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: \b requires raw strings or to be escaped. Update docs with that hint? type: enhancement versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29315> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
