14 May
2007
14 May
'07
6:40 a.m.
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 13:06 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
attribution_pattern = re.compile(ur'(---?(?!-)|\u2014) *(?=[^ \n])')
But wouldn't it be just as handy to teach the re module about \u and \U, just as it already knows about \x (and \123 octals)?
And \n, \r, etc. Implementing \u in re is not only useful, but also consistent.