Mike wrote: > I've been having trouble with a regular expression, and I finally simplified > things down to the point that (a) my example is very simple, and (b) I'm > totally confused. There are those who would say (b) is normal, but that's > another thread. > > I finally simplified my problem down to this simple case: > > re.match(r'\\this', r'\\this') > > Both the pattern and the string to match are identical raw strings, yet they > don't match.
In the pattern, the first backslash escapes the second; thus the two backslashes in the pattern match one backslash in the string. Another example: re.match(r"\[",r"\[") => False re.match(r"\[",r"[") => True Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
