re Questions

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2014-01-26 08:59 -0800
Message-ID	<3f568767-e13a-4c7d-a4fb-85caca2adf6e@googlegroups.com> (permalink)
Subject	re Questions
From	Blake Adams <blakesadams@gmail.com>

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Im pretty new to Python and understand most of the basics of Python re but am stumped by a unexpected matching dynamics.

If I want to set up a match replicating the '\w' pattern I would assume that would be done with '[A-z0-9_]'.  However, when I run the following:

re.findall('[A-z0-9_]','^;z %C\@0~_') it matches ['^', 'z', 'C', '\\', '0', '_'].  I would expect the match to be ['z', 'C', '0', '_'].

Why does this happen?

Thanks in advance

Blake

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re Questions Blake Adams <blakesadams@gmail.com> - 2014-01-26 08:59 -0800
  Re: re Questions Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-26 10:06 -0700
    Re: re Questions Blake Adams <blakesadams@gmail.com> - 2014-01-26 09:15 -0800
  Re: re Questions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 04:08 +1100
    Re: re Questions Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-26 12:15 -0500
      Re: re Questions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 04:25 +1100
      Re: re Questions Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-26 17:39 +0000
      Re: re Questions Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-01-26 13:41 -0600
    Re: re Questions Blake Adams <blakesadams@gmail.com> - 2014-01-26 09:15 -0800
      Re: re Questions Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-26 17:30 +0000

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