On 01/03/2013 12:39 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
someone wrote:

On 01/03/2013 10:00 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote:

[a-z_][a-z0-9_]{2,30}$) - so I suppose it wants this name to end with
[an
underscore ?

No, it allows underscores. As I read that re, 'rx', etc, do match. They

No, it's one leading letter or underscore [a-z_] plus at least two
letters, underscores or digits [a-z0-9_]{2,30}

Ah, [a-z0-9_]{2,30} means there should be at least two characters and
maximum 30 characters here ?

Yes. See

http://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax

Thanks - it's on my TODO-list to learn more about how to use these regexps...


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