efficient mega-replacements

Jonathan Hogg jonathan at onegoodidea.com
Fri Jan 25 06:20:21 EST 2002


On 24/1/2002 22:45, in article
mailman.1011912407.10044.python-list at python.org, "Delaney, Timothy"
<tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:

> Firstly, they are not "regexp" strings, but "raw" strings.

That'd be raw strings. I quoted regexp because I was aware that it's a
colloquial name.

> Secondly, a raw string cannot end with a non-escaped backslash. So r'\' is
> invalid.

I stand corrected on that one ;-)

Jonathan




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