a colleague demonstrated a problem he had with regular expressions >>> apppath = os.path.abspath(os.curdir) >>> apppath 'C:\\napp_and_author_query\\napp_and_author_query\\a b c d' >>> template = r'<AppPath>\files' >>> template '<AppPath>\\files' >>> re.sub(r'(?i)<apppath>', apppath, template) 'C:\napp_and_author_query\napp_and_author_query\x07 b c d\\files' >>> print re.sub(r'(?i)<apppath>', apppath, template) C: app_and_author_query app_and_author_query b c d\files >>>
for this particular use-case, I myself prefer using string formatting but I still would like to know what's wrong with the above usage of re.sub Python 2.3.4 (#53, May 25 2004, 21:17:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
