Where's the error?
Duncan Booth
duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk
Tue Dec 4 07:21:40 EST 2001
"Bror Johansson" <bror.johansson at avionics.saab.se> wrote in
news:9uibrc$199$1 at newstoo.ericsson.se:
> regline =
> re.compile('^(\*)?\s+\\([^\s]+)\s+\\\\([^\s]+)\s+(p(rivate)|(ublic))\s*
> $')
>
> Can anyone help me clear my eyesight?
>
I suggest you either try using raw strings here, or you escape all the
backslashes. If you copy the string into a variable and print it you should
see the problem pretty quickly:
>>> s = '^(\*)?\s+\\([^\s]+)\s+\\\\([^\s]+)\s+(p(rivate)|(ublic))\s*$'
>>> s
'^(\\*)?\\s+\\([^\\s]+)\\s+\\\\([^\\s]+)\\s+(p(rivate)|(ublic))\\s*$'
>>> print s
^(\*)?\s+\([^\s]+)\s+\\([^\s]+)\s+(p(rivate)|(ublic))\s*$
>>>
It looks to me as though the second ( is escaped in the regular expression,
but the second ) is not.
--
Duncan Booth duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?
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