Re: what is \s+ and \S+ means in re.compile?

On Mar 20, 2005, at 9:59 AM, sam wrote: I was confused by \s+ and \S+ in python. The second one (\S+) is stand for matching all alphabets except for digit and space? How about the first one? From the docs: \s Matches any whitespace character; this is equivalent to the set [ \t\n\r\f\v]. \S Matc

what is \s+ and \S+ means in re.compile?

Hi, I was confused by \s+ and \S+ in python. The second one (\S+) is stand for matching all alphabets except for digit and space? How about the first one? Thanks Sam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list