How to escape strings for re.finditer?

[avi.e.gross at gmail.com]

Thanks, Peter. Excellent advice, even if only for any of us using Microsoft
Outlook as our mailer. I made the changes and we will see but they should
mainly impact what I see. I did tweak another parameter.

The problem for me was finding where they hid the options menu I needed.
Then, I started translating the menus back into German until I realized I
was being silly! Good practice though. LOL!

The truth is I generally can handle receiving mangled code as most of the
time I can re-edit it into shape, or am just reading it and not
copying/pasting.

What concerns me is to be able to send out the pure text content many seem
to need in a way that does not introduce the anomalies people see. Something
like a least-common denominator.

Or. I could switch mailers. But my guess is reading/responding from the
native gmail editor may also need options changes and yet still impact some
readers.

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Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2023 3:09 PM
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Subject: Re: How to escape strings for re.finditer?

On 2023-03-01 01:01:42 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2023-02-28 15:25:05 -0500, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
> > I had no doubt the code you ran was indented properly or it would not
work.
> > 
> > I am merely letting you know that somewhere in the process of 
> > copying the code or the transition between mailers, my version is messed
up.
> 
> The problem seems to be at your end. Jen's code looks ok here.
[...]
> I have no idea why it would join only some lines but not others.

Actually I do have an idea now, since I noticed something similar at work
today: Outlook has an option "remove additional line breaks from text-only
messages" (translated from German) in the the "Email / Message Format"
section. You want to make sure this is off if you are reading mails where
line breaks might be important[1].

        hp

[1] Personally I'd say you shouldn't use Outlook if you are reading mails
where line breaks (or other formatting) is important, but ...

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