Josh Rosenberg <shadowranger+pyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
"\\-" is equivalent to the raw string r"\-" (that it, it has one backslash, followed by a hyphen). \X (where X is any ASCII non-letter, non-digit) matches the character itself (the escape does nothing except ensure the punctuation doesn't have any special regex meaning). So your pattern is equivalent to "-". Since re.match has an implicit anchor at the beginning of the string (making it roughly like "^-"), the string "\-" doesn't match. Use raw strings consistently for your regular expressions to reduce the number of rounds of deescaping. re.match(r"\\-", "\\-") works as you expected. ---------- nosy: +josh.r _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36206> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
