syntax incorrect with regex

Swaroop C H swaroopch at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 11:20:08 EST 2005


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:57:15 +0800, sam <sam.wun at authtec.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the correct syntax of declaring a regex syntax in Python 2.3?
> I got the following error:
> 
> # python2.3 test.py
>    File "test.py", line 10
>      macros_parser = re.compile (r""" (\s+)=\"(\s+)\"$ """,re.VERBOS)
>      ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Please check the indentation you have used.
Also, it should be re.VERBOSE (note the ending 'e')

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