Tiago Saboga wrote: > Em Segunda 28 Agosto 2006 11:12, Kent Johnson escreveu: > >> Ahem. Which part of "Whitespace within the pattern is ignored" do you >> not understand? :-) >> > > It's easy ;-) It's the "whitespace" part. I read it as the space character, > not as any blank character. I should have noted that new lines are ignored > too, but I didn't. > > (I just looked a little around in my system and it seems like it's not just > my > own opinion, the ascii(7), regex(7) and wctype(3) man pages talk about spaces > and blank characters, and the latter means what is meant by "whitespace" in > python docs).
A 'space character' is the single character \x20. A 'whitespace character' is any character in a some set of non-printing (white) characters. I guess it is a subtle distinction but it's common usage, not just Python; it even has a Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28computer_science%29 (Not to be confused with Whitespace the programming language, in which all *non* white space characters are ignored: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_programming_language :-)) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
