Is the third case here surprising to anyone else? It doesn't make sense to me...
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Oct 24 2009, 03:15:21) [GCC 4.4.1 [gcc-4_4-branch revision 150839]] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from re import compile >>> p1 = compile('a\x62c') >>> p1.match('abc') <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7f4e8f93d578> >>> p2 = compile('a\\x62c') >>> p2.match('abc') <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7f4e8f93d920> >>> p3 = compile('a\\\x62c') >>> p3.match('a\\bc') >>> p3.match('abc') >>> p3.match('a\\\x62c') >>> Curious/confused, Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list