On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:58:08 -0000, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 12/17/2009 7:59 PM, Rhodri James wrote:
"re.compile('a\\nc')" passes a sequence of four characters to
re.compile: 'a', '\', 'n' and 'c'. re.compile() then does it's own
interpretation: 'a' passes through as is, '\' flags an escape which
combined with 'n' produces the newline character (0x0a), and 'c' passes
through as is.
I got that from MRAB's posts. (Thanks.)
What I'm not getting is why the replacement string
gets this particular interpretation. What is the payoff?
So that the substitution escapes \1, \2 and so on work.
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