30 Jun
2000
30 Jun
'00
4:03 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:07:16AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
To someone familiar with '\x00ffffffffffffff' == '\377', the failure is surprising. What Would Larry Do? (I.e. is this in Perl?)
It uses two digits: "\x00ffff" is the string "
Maybe make it dependent on the type of the searched string ('\377') rather than on the type of the pattern?
Won't work; you could just be compiling a pattern to make a regex object, and have no idea what you're matching against. --amk