New Python regex Doc

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Fri May 6 07:25:15 EDT 2005


Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have now also started to rewrite the re-syntax page. At first i
>>thought that page needs not to be rewritten, since its about regex and
>>not really involved with Python. But after another look, that page is
>>as incompetent as every other page of Python documentation.
>>
>>The rewritten page is here:
>>http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/re-syntax.html
>>
>>It's not complete
> 
> 
> and it no longer describes how things work.  study the inner workings
> of the RE engine some more, and try again.
> 

Though I realise I'm not one to gloat about other people's typos, I did 
find that "When the LOCALE and UNICODE flags are apples as usual." 
really appealed to my imagination. And I thought it was all ones and 
zeroes ...

regards
  Steve
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