Re: [Tutor] Regex/Raw String confusion

On 08/04/2016 03:27 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: On 04/08/16 02:54, Jim Byrnes wrote: Is the second example a special case? phoneNumRegex = re.compile(r'(\(\d\d\d\)) (\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d)') I ask because it produces the same results with or without the ' r '. That's because in this specific

Re: [Tutor] Regex/Raw String confusion

On 04/08/16 02:54, Jim Byrnes wrote: > Is the second example a special case? > > phoneNumRegex = re.compile(r'(\(\d\d\d\)) (\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d)') > > I ask because it produces the same results with or without the ' r '. That's because in this specific case there are no conflicts between the regex

Re: [Tutor] Regex/Raw String confusion

> On Aug 3, 2016, at 20:54, Jim Byrnes wrote: > > Is the second example a special case? > > phoneNumRegex = re.compile(r'(\(\d\d\d\)) (\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d)') > mo = phoneNumRegex.search('My phone number is: (415) 555-4242.') > print(mo.group(1)) > print() >

Re: [Tutor] Regex/Raw String confusion

On 03/08/16 20:49, Jim Byrnes wrote: > Regular Expressions he talks about the python escape character being a > '\' and regex using alot of backslashes. In effect there are two levels of escape character, python and the regex processor. Unfortunately they both use backslash! Python applies its

[Tutor] Regex/Raw String confusion

I am reading Automate The Boring Stuff With Python. In the chapter on Regular Expressions he talks about the python escape character being a '\' and regex using alot of backslashes. Then he says, However, by putting an r before the first quote of the string value, you can mark the string as