James Thiele schrieb:
> I was helping a guy at work with regular expressions and found
> something I didn't expect:
>
>
>>>>re.match('\d', '7').group()
>
> '7'
'\d' is not recognized as a escape sequence by Python and therefore it
is left unchanged <http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html> in the
string which is passed to re.match.
>
>>>>re.match('\\d', '7').group()
>
> '7'
> [...]
This is the correct version. The first backslash escapes the second one
and this version will work even if a future version of Python recognizes
\d as an escape sequence.
Dennis
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