I am confused about ' and "

Joel Goldstick joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 14:12:08 EDT 2014


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:01 PM, fl <rxjwg98 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It is still in the Regular expression operations concept, this link:

You must have missed my comment about quote and double quote.  In
python you can write a string using either.  Just make sure if you
start with double quote, you must end with double quote.  Before
tackling regular expressions, go to the python tutorial and learn
about strings.
>
> has example using single quote mark: '
>
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#re.split
>
>
> While in this link:
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html
>
>
> It gives table with quote: "
>
> Regular String  Raw string
> "ab*"   r"ab*"
> "\\\\section"   r"\\section"
> "\\w+\\s+\\1"   r"\w+\s+\1"
>
>
> and link:
>
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html
>
>
> m = re.match(r"(\w+) (\w+)", "Isaac Newton, physicist")
>
>
> Please tell me because I have looked it around for one hour about it.
>
> Thanks,
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