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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks for the bug report, Eric, I&#8217;ve filed another bug on
CodePlex to track this more complicated issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=11136">http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=11136</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces@lists.ironpython.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Eric.Wyler@bentley.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@lists.ironpython.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [IronPython] Valid regex under CPython won't compile under
IronPython<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>#test.py<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>import
re<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>#
The below line fails under IronPython 1.1 (but works under Cpython)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>regex
= re.compile(
r&quot;^(?P&lt;msg&gt;NMAKE[A-Za-z0-9]*)'\&quot;?(?P&lt;file&gt;[\\A-Za-z0-9/:_\.\+]+)&quot;
)<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>if
regex.search( r&quot;NMAKE0119'adirectory\afile.txt&quot; ):<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
print 'good'<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>else:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
print 'bad'<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>----------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
following error is emitted:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>re.error:
parsing &quot;^(?&lt;msg&gt;NMAKE[A-Za-z0-9
\t:]*)'\&quot;?(?&lt;file&gt;[\A-Za-z0-9/:_\.\+]+)&quot; - Unrecognized escape
sequence \A.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>There
was a previous bug report about this at <a
href="http://lists.ironpython.com/pipermail/users-ironpython.com/2006-September/003382.html">http://lists.ironpython.com/pipermail/users-ironpython.com/2006-September/003382.html</a>
which was fixed, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to work in this more complicated case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>If
the double slashes are moved to the end of the character class, it works.&nbsp;
Interestingly, it also works if you remove the \&quot;?.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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