On 04/12/10 08:43, andrew cooke wrote:
Is the third case here surprising to anyone else? It doesn't make
sense to me...
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On Apr 11, 8:12 pm, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
In the first case, *python* will unescape the string literal '\x62' into
letters 'b'. In the second case, python will unescape the double
backslash '\\' into a single slash '\' and *regex* will unescape the
single-slash-62 into 'b'. In the
On Apr 11, 5:43 pm, andrew cooke and...@acooke.org wrote:
Is the third case here surprising to anyone else? It doesn't make
sense to me...
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On Apr 11, 7:18 pm, Paul McGuire pt...@austin.rr.com wrote:
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So I would say the surprise isn't that case 3 didn't match, but that
case 2 matched.
Unless I just don't get what you were testing, not being an RE wiz.
Case 2 is the regexp engine interpreting escapes that appear as
literal
andrew cooke wrote:
Is the third case here surprising to anyone else? It doesn't make
sense to me...
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from re import compile
p1
