Question about metacharacter '*'

[Devin Jeanpierre]

The reason I did not use \d\d* or \d+ or ^\d+$ or any number of
more-correct things was because the OP was new to regexps.

-- Devin

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:49 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 2014-07-06 18:41, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
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>>> In article <d8f8d76d-0a47-4f59-8f09-da2a44cc1d2e at googlegroups.com>,
>>> Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> As an aside i prefer to only utilize a "character set" when
>>>> nothing else will suffice. And in this case r"[0-9][0-9]*"
>>>> can be expressed just as correctly  (and less noisy IMHO) as
>>>> r"\d\d*".
>>>
>>>
>>> Even better, r"\d+"
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>> I tend tot do that too, even though technically the two are not perfectly
>> equivalent. With the re.LOCALE flag LC_ctype is also affected, which affects
>> what is captured by \d but not by [0-9]
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> \d also matches more than just [0-9] in Unicode.
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