Need help running external program

Brian van den Broek bvande at po-box.mcgill.ca
Sun Feb 27 15:25:13 EST 2005


Rigga said unto the world upon 2005-02-27 15:04:
> Tim Jarman wrote:

<SNIP>

>>No, the r was the point - it's there to tell Python not to do any escaping
>>on the string. Try it again with the r and see what happens.
>>
> 
> Brilliant!!!  that works a treat thankyou!!, where on earth did you find out
> about the 'r'  any pointers to documentation appreciated.
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> RiGGa

<http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/strings.html>
<http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-re.html>

Best,

Brian vdB



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