Well its this normal? i want to concatenate a number to a backreference in a regular expression. Im working in a multprocess script so the first what i think is in an error in the multiprocess logic but what a sorprise!!! when arrived to this conclussion after some time debugging i see that:
import re aa = "zzz:xxx" re.sub(r'(zzz:).*',r'\1'+str(3333),aa) '[33' ¿?¿?¿? well lets put a : after the backreference aa = "zzz:xxx" re.sub(r'(zzz).*',r'\1:'+str(3333),aa) 'zzz:3333' now its the expected result.... so should i expect that python concatenate the string to the backreference before substitute the backreference? or is a bug tested on: Python 2.6.2 (r262:71605, Apr 14 2009, 22:40:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 17:40:26) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 with the same result Cheers! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list