On 12/19/2009 4:59 AM, Alan G Isaac wrote:
On 12/18/2009 12:17 PM, MRAB wrote:
In simple cases you might be replacing with the same string every time,
but other cases you might want the replacement to contain substrings
captured by the regex.
Of course that "conversion" is needed in the replacement.
But e.g. Vim substitutions handle this fine without the
odd (to non perlers) handling of backslashes in replacement.
Alan Isaac
Short answer: Python is not Perl, Python's re.sub is not Vim's :s.
Slightly longer answer: Different environments have different need;
vim-ers more often needs to escape with just a plain text. All in all,
the decision for default behaviors are often made so that less backslash
will be needed for the more common case in the particular environment.
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