Guido van Rossum added the comment: Anatoly, your question belongs on python-list or stack overflow, not in the tracker.
--Guido van Rossum (sent from Android phone) On Mar 15, 2013 9:28 AM, "anatoly techtonik" <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > anatoly techtonik added the comment: > > Matthew, finally the right answer. Thanks! > > > Looking further, there is a bug in processing backslashes in raw literal > replacement strings. re.sub ignores raw strings as replacements. This can > be even more confusing for people who look for more advanced equivalent for > string replace(). > > > patt = "aaa" > repl = r"zed \0 org" > > print(" aaa ".replace(patt, repl)) > > import re > print(re.sub(patt, repl, " aaa ")) > > This gives: > > zed \0 org > zed org > > With `repl = "zed \0 org"`, the output matches: > > zed org > zed org > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue17426> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17426> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com