What is \1 here?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 11/11/2014 15:20, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com>
>> To: python-list at python.org
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: What is \1 here?
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>> You need to learn how to find this stuff out for yourself. Ben Finney
>> even gave you a pointer to a helpful site for experimenting with
>> regexes: http://pythex.org/
>
> Cool. I also like this one, which hardly anybody appears to use:
>
> python C:\Python27\Tools\Scripts\redemo.py
>
> The functionality is virtually the same.
>

FTR redemo.py has been removed from Python 3 at some point.

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Mark Lawrence