\w in regular expression

[William Park]

Marcello Pietrobon <teiffel at attglobal.net> wrote:
> >>> p = re.compile(r'\W+')
> >>> p.split('This is a test, short and sweet, of split().')
> ['This', 'is', 'a', 'test', 'short', 'and', 'sweet', 'of', 'split', '']
> 
> At first I thought a typo:

It's correct.  No typo.

> In other word is Python re module not compatible with Perl ?

What answer were you expecting in Perl?

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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