[david] wrote: > r" indicates a 'regular expression' string, normally > called a raw string. It means that \ characters are > treated using the regex syntax rather than the c syntax.
This is an incredibly creative answer , if not fastidiously correct. Raw strings simply disable the special effects of backslash (\) within the string (except that it cannot be the final character of a quoted string even if it a raw string for technical lexer (tokenizer) simplicity reasons). The regex syntax is used on the resulting string constant if (and only if) the string is passed to the regular expression functions as a regex pattern parameter. -Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
