On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 06:26:18PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Two things. Firstly, the Python regex engine numbers backreferences from
> 1, not 0, so you need \1 and not \0.
Thank for the mail, but i am still not getting it. e.g.
>>> import re
>>> s = 'one two'
>>> re.sub('(one) (two)', r'\1 - \2 \3',s)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/re.py", line 151, in sub
return _compile(pattern, 0).sub(repl, string, count)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/re.py", line 278, in filter
return sre_parse.expand_template(template, match)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/sre_parse.py", line 795, in expand_template
raise error, "invalid group reference"
sre_constants.error: invalid group reference
>>> re.sub('(one) (two)', r'\1 - \2',s)
'one - two'
In first sub I expected,
one two - one two
I understand that \1 is first (group), \2 the second and etc.
But what is the entire regex?
With warm regards,
-Payal
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