Regular Expressions and Python 1.5.2

[Matt Dunford]

* Alexandre Fayolle <alf at leo.logilab.fr>:
> Is this a known bug in the module re of python 1.5.2, or am I missing 
> something obvious?
> 
> >>> import re
> >>> t = "m&n"
> >>> re.sub('[^/_ -]','*',t)
> '***'
> >>> re.sub('[^_ -/]','*',t)
> '*&*'

Your regex's look fine to me.  Remember that an '-' indicates a range
of characters.  '[ -/]' will match exactly that: <space> through
<forward slash>.  An '&' is between those two.  Check out this ascii
chart.

http://www.jimprice.com/ascii-0-127.gif

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