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On Friday, May 11, 2012 11:58:01 AM UTC-7, vacu wrote:
> I am frustrated to see %d not working in my Python 2.7 re.search, like
> this example:
>
> >>> (re.search('%d', "asdfdsf78asdfdf")).group(0)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
>
>
> \d works fine:
>
> >>> (re.search('\d+', "asdfdsf78asdfdf")).group(0)
> '78'
>
>
> And google search ignores % in their search, so I failed to find
> answer from Python mailing list or web,
> Do you have any idea what's problem here?
>
> Thanks a head
> Vacu
%d and %s and such are format strings, not regex.
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