I'm trying to compile a perfectly valid regex, but get the error message: r = re.compile(r'([^\d]*)(\d{1,3}\.\d{0,2})?(\d*)(\,\d{1,3}\.\d{0,2})?(\d*)?.*') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.3/sre.py", line 179, in compile return _compile(pattern, flags) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/sre.py", line 230, in _compile raise error, v # invalid expression sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat >>>
What does this mean? I know that the regex ([^\d]*)(\d{1,3}\.\d{0,2})?(\d*)(\,\d{1,3}\.\d{0,2})?(\d*)?.* is valid because i'm able to use it in Regex Coach. But is Python's regex syntax different that an ordinary syntax? By the way, i'm using it to normalise strings like: London|country/uk/region/europe/geocoord/32.3244,42,1221244 to: London|country/uk/region/europe/geocoord/32.32,42,12 By using \1\2\4 as replace. I'm open for other suggestions to achieve this! -Gisle- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list