On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Lie Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The string implicit string concatenation exist for things like verbose > re (regular expression): > > import re > re.compile( > '<' # Start opening tag > '\s*' # Arbitrary whitespace > '(.*?)' # tagname > '\s*' # Arbitrary whitespace > '(.*?)' # Values > '>', # Start closing tag > re.VERBOSE > )
VERBOSE regular expressions can contain comments; this could be written as re.compile(''' < # Start opening tag \s* # Arbitrary whitespace (.*?) # tagname \s* # Arbitrary whitespace (.*?) # Values >''', # Start closing tag re.VERBOSE ) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor