Hello everyone...<br><br>I have a small problem...I'm trying to match a pound symbol in a document using Python. (Version 2.5.2, although I also ran this under 2.6 and it seemed to give the same result. But ultimately I need correct code for 2.5.2)<br>
<br>Here's the code:<br><br>#!/usr/bin/env python<br># -*- coding: utf-8 -*-<br>import re<br><br>########## This part doesn't work doesn't work right...but at least it matches<br><br>text = "The Price £7"<br>
pattern = u"£\d"<br><br>m = re.search(pattern, text, re.UNICODE)<br>print m.group(0)<br><br>########## This part fails to get a match completely<br><br>pattern = u" £\d"<br>m = re.search(pattern, text, re.UNICODE)<br>
print m.group(0)<br><br><br>Now what I would expect to happen is that the first half of the code would print out:<br>£7<br><br>Instead it prints out:<br>�7<br><br>Which is doubly weird cause it can print the pound charcter in the pattern...<br>
<br>The second half of the code should do the same thing except include the space at the beginning.<br><br>So I expect:<br> £7<br><br>but instead get an exception.<br><br>I've tried (I believe) every combination of using re.UNICODE or not, as well as quoting the strings with u or just leaving them as normal. Nothing seemed to solve the problem.<br>
<br>Thank you for the help!<br>