Alternative dictionary output format?
Andrew M. Kuchling
akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Fri Jun 4 13:52:31 EDT 1999
Evan Simpson writes:
>I don't know if this is 100% bulletproof, but it has simple behavior:
>pctsub = re.compile('%(?!%*\()').sub
>def pfstr(s, pctsub = pctsub):
> '''Double all '%' except those leading up to a '(', for dict formatting'''
> return pctsub('%%', s)
An alternative is re.sub('%([^(]|\Z)', r'%%\1', <string>) . The [^(]
| \Z will match either any character that's not a (, or at the end of
the string. The \Z is needed in order to handle a trailing '%' --
regexes are tricky.
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