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  RE: Regular Expression : Bad Character Range Frank Cui <ycui@outlook.com> - 2013-12-19 23:53 -0300

#62425 — RE: Regular Expression : Bad Character Range

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should have escaped hyphen as it could be used for ranging. 

sorry for the bother...

From: ycui@outlook.com
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Regular Expression : Bad Character Range
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 23:50:52 -0300




Hey guys,

I'm trying to compile a regular Expression while encountering the following issue, any hints ?

is hyphen "-" or underscore "_" considered any meta character which is not allowed when putting into the range ?

Thanks
Frank

In [2]: re.compile("[\w-_]+>")
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
error                                     Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/frank/<ipython-input-2-ee4b44c4d17a> in <module>()
----> 1 re.compile("[\w-_]+>")

/usr/lib/python2.7/re.pyc in compile(pattern, flags)
    188 def compile(pattern, flags=0):
    189     "Compile a regular expression pattern, returning a pattern object."
--> 190     return _compile(pattern, flags)
    191 
    192 def purge():

/usr/lib/python2.7/re.pyc in _compile(*key)
    240         p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
    241     except error, v:
--> 242         raise error, v # invalid expression
    243     if len(_cache) >= _MAXCACHE:
    244         _cache.clear()

error: bad character range

 		 	   		  

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