New submission from Phillip Feldman phillip.m.feld...@gmail.com:
The first example below works; the second one produces output containing
garbage characters. (This came up while I was creating a set of examples for a
tutorial on regular expressions).
import re
text= The cat ate the rat.
Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment:
You forgot to use raw strings:
text = The cat ate the rat.
print(before: %s % text)
before: The cat ate the rat.
text = re.sub((\w+) ate the (\w+), r\2 ate the \1, text)
print(after : %s % text)
after : The rat ate the cat.
(Maybe you
