andrew cooke wrote:
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 com
On Apr 11, 7:18 pm, Paul McGuire wrote:
[...]
>
> So I would say the surprise isn't that case 3 didn't match, but that
> case 2 matched.
>
> Unless I just don't get what you were testing, not being an RE wiz.
Case 2 is the regexp engine interpreting escapes that appear as
literal strings. It's w
On Apr 11, 5:43 pm, andrew cooke wrote:
> 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 in
On Apr 11, 8:12 pm, Lie Ryan wrote:
> In the first case, *python* will unescape the string literal '\x62' into
> letters 'b'. In the second case, python will unescape the double
> backslash '\\' into a single slash '\' and *regex* will unescape the
> single-slash-62 into 'b'. In the third case, *p
On 04/12/10 08:43, andrew cooke wrote:
>
> 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
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 = comp
