Kent Johnson wrote at 14:36 10/13/2005: >Dick Moores wrote: > > I've begun to try out redemo.py to test and learn regular > expressions. It > > doesn't seem to accept Python's raw strings as raw strings, e.g., > > r'python\.org' for matching python.org and nothing else. Am I > correct, > > or is there something I don't understand here? > >In redemo you just type the actual regex string, no quotes or r prefix. >So if you type into the top text box > python\.org >and in the middle text box > python.org >then you will get a match. > >In your program then you have to type the regex as a string literal so >you would type > r'python\.org' > > > (A question about quoting in a Tutor post: in my 1st paragraph above, > how > > could I have indicated that I am quoting both > > > > r'python\.org' and python.org > > > > without using quotation marks to do so, so as to not confuse the > regex? I > > think I remember someone recently using angled brackets. So how about > > <r'python\.org'> and <python.org>? Is there a convention about this?) > >I found it clear the way you typed it. In my response I set the strings >off with newlines and an indent. Angle brackets would probably work fine >too. IOW I don't think there is really a convention.
If they're OK, I'll go with angle brackets unless they would be ambiguous. BTW in redemo.py, what do the checkboxes VERBOSE, LOCALE, and DOTALL mean? (I understand IGNORECASE and MULTILINE.) Thanks, Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
