[Tutor] Job posting at LucasArts

Tim Peters tutor@python.org
Thu Jun 26 15:19:00 2003


[tpc@csua.berkeley.edu]
> on a related note, from the python documentation, is there a reason
> why these particular letters were chosen as flags for module re:
>
> (?iLmsux)
>     (One or more letters from the set "i", "L", "m", "s", "u", "x".)

Python's regexp syntax was designed to be reasonably compatible with Perl5's
regexp syntax, and Perl5 made up these abbreviations.  IOW, Python inherited
these choices from Perl.