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| Date | Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:34:36 -0600 |
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On 01/10/12 10:49, Roy Smith wrote: > The docs for re.VERBOSE say, "Whitespace within the pattern is > ignored, except when [...] preceded by an unescaped > backslash". It's unclear exactly what that means. If my > pattern is: > > <backslash><space><space> > > is the second space considered to be preceded by a backslash, > and thus taken literally, or does the backslash only apply to > the first<space>? I suspect the latter, but it's somewhat > ambiguous. You're right (easily testable) in your suspicions that the second space is ignored in this case. I suppose the documentation could be tweaked to read "immediately preceded". -tkc
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Unclear about verbose regex syntax (excaping whitespace) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-01-10 08:49 -0800 Re: Unclear about verbose regex syntax (excaping whitespace) Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-01-10 11:34 -0600
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