Regexp syntax change in 1.6?

[Adam Sampson]

Gareth.McCaughan at pobox.com (Gareth McCaughan) writes:

> > m = re.match(r"[a-z0-9]*://[^/]+/.*\.([^.#\?/]*)([#\?]?.*)?", url)
> > sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat 

> For your actual case, the closing
> 
>     ([xyz]?.*)?
> (contents of charset changed for clarity) could be replaced
> with
>     ([xyz]?.*)

Argh, yes, I should have spotted that one. (The kludge that I actually
did was to change the final .* to .*., which stopped SRE from
complaining.) It works perfectly now, anyway.

Thanks,

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Adam Sampson
azz at gnu.org