> On Aug 3, 2016, at 20:54, Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net> 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()
> print(mo.group(2))
>
> I ask because it produces the same results with or without the ' r '.
No, it’s not a special case. The backslashes in this case are a way to
simplify what could otherwise be very unwieldy. There are several of these
character groups (called special sequences in the documentation). For example,
\s means any whitespace character, \w means any alphanumeric or underscore, \d
means any digit, etc.
You can look them up in the docs:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html
—
David Rock
da...@graniteweb.com
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