On Jul 10, 2014 7:53 PM, "fl" <rxjw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > It is still in the Regular expression operations concept, this link: > > has example using single quote mark: ' > > https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#re.split > > > While in this link: > > https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html > > > It gives table with quote: " > > Regular String Raw string > "ab*" r"ab*" > "\\\\section" r"\\section" > "\\w+\\s+\\1" r"\w+\s+\1" > > > and link: > > https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html > > > m = re.match(r"(\w+) (\w+)", "Isaac Newton, physicist") > > > Please tell me because I have looked it around for one hour about it. > > Thanks, > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Both characters (' and ") are interchangeable, the only difference being the one you need to escape if you want to use in a string: "you're" vs 'you\'re', and the other way around. Also, please read the Python tutorial[0] before getting into bigger things, and please don’t mix documentation versions. If you were to read the tutorial, you’d quickly find out, that > 3.1.2. Strings > > Besides numbers, Python can also manipulate strings, which can be > expressed in several ways. They can be enclosed in single quotes > ('...') or double quotes ("...") with the same result [2]. \ can be > used to escape quotes. > > [snip] > > [2] Unlike other languages, special characters such as \n have the > same meaning with both single ('...') and double ("...") quotes. > The only difference between the two is that within single quotes > you don’t need to escape "(but you have to escape \') and vice > versa. [0]: https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/index.html -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list