r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > "Loris Bennett" <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> writes: >>I thought that 'days' would default to '0'. > > It will get the value '0' if (?P<days>\d*) does > /not/ participate in the match. > > In your case, it /does/ participate in the match, > \d* matching the empty string. > > Try (?P<days>\d+)?.
Ah, thanks. I was misunderstanding the meaning of 'participate'. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
