Collin Funk wrote: > > I guess I wasn't very familiar with raw strings when I did this change. > > No worries, it was pretty easy to find and fix. I remember a professor > in college telling us to always use them for Python regular > expressions. It seems this is also recommended by the Python people, > see the '\' character under this page: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax
Indeed, this doc contains the explanation for the 'pycodestyle' warning that I was seeing. With a plain string instead of a raw string, I get: $ pycodestyle *.py ... GLEmiter.py:535:26: W605 invalid escape sequence '\.' GLEmiter.py:535:35: W605 invalid escape sequence '\.' ... which indicates that the Python parser would have eaten up the backslash before the regular expression engine could see it. Bruno
