Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Joerg Schuster wrote: > > >>>if you want to know why 100 is a reasonable and non-random choice, I >>>suggest checking the RE documentation for "99 groups" and the special >>>meaning of group 0. >> >>I have read everything I found about Python regular expressions. But I >>am not able to understand what you mean. What is so special about 99? > > > it's the largest number than can be written with two decimal digits.
It's a conflict between python's syntax for regex back references and octal number literals. Probably wasn't noticed until way too late, and now it will never change. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
