sys.stdin and re.search

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Mon Jan 20 06:20:38 EST 2003


John Machin wrote:

> You don't need those square brackets, it will still work without them.

I noticed that as well, I actually thought that they might not work. 
Some regular expression systems would interpret [\d] as either a \ or a
d, rather than a digit; Python's doesn't, though.

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