Using python 2.4.4 on OpenSolaris 2008.11 I have the following string created by opening a url that has the following string in it:
td[ct] = [[ ... ]];\r\n The ... above is what I'm interested in extracting which is really a whole bunch of text. So I think the regex \[\[(.*)\]\]; should do it. The problem is it appears that python is escaping the \ in the regex because I see this:
reg = '\[\[(.*)\]\];' reg
'\\[\\[(.*)\\]\\];' Now to me looks like it would match the string - \[\[ ... \]\]; Which obviously doesn't match anything because there are no literal \ in the above string. Leaving the \ out of the \[\[ above has re.compile throw an error because [ is a special regex character. Which is why it needs to be escaped in the first place. I am either doing something really wrong, which very possible, or I've missed something obvious. Either way, I thought I'd ask why this isn't working and why it seems to be changing my regex to something else. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
