On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been beating my head against the wall try to figure out how > to get regular expressions to match the font change sequences in > *roff input (e.g. \fB for bold, \fP to revert to previous font). > The re library maps r'\f' to the single form-feed character (as > it does other common single-character sequences like r'\n').
Does this example help? ########################################### >>> sampleText = r"\This\ has \backslashes\." >>> print sampleText \This\ has \backslashes\. >>> import re >>> re.findall(r"\\\w+\\", sampleText) ['\\This\\', '\\backslashes\\'] ########################################### _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
