In article <mailman.11747.1405046292.18130.python-l...@python.org>,
Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2014-07-10 22:18, Roy Smith wrote:
> > > Outside this are \( and \): these are literal opening and closing
> > > bracket characters. So:
> > >
> > > \(\([^)]+\)\)
> >
> > although, even better would be to use to utterly awesome
> >> re.VERBOSE
> > flag, and write it as:
> >
> > \({2} [^)]+ \){2}
>
> Or heck, use a multi-line verbose expression and comment it for
> clarity:
>
> r = re.compile(r"""
> ( # begin a capture group
> \({2} # two literal "(" characters
> [^)]+ # one or more non-close-paren characters
> \){2} # two literal ")" characters
> ) # close the capture group
> """, re.VERBOSE)
>
> -tkc
Ugh. That reminds me of the classic commenting anti-pattern:
l = [] # create an empty list
for i in range(10): # iterate over the first 10 integers
l.append(i) # append each one to the list
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