syntax incorrect with regex

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:57:15 +0800, rumours say that sam <sam.wun at authtec.com>
might have written:

>     macros_parser = re.compile (r""" (\s+)=\"(\s+)\"$ """,re.VERBOS)
>     ^
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Like Diez already said, your problem is probably mixing of tabs with spaces or
bad indentation in general.  The "^" character points at the start of your line,
and errors in regular expressions typically raise sre.error, not SyntaxError.

Is this part of a script or does it come from the command line?  If the latter,
don't insert any spaces at the start of your line; if the former, compare
indentation with the line above.
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