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.
the regular expression engine matches a pattern against a string, not a
string against a string. in a pattern, "\\" matches a single backslash.
in your raw string, you have *two* backslashes. try this instead:
re.match(r'\\this', '\\this')
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