re problem

[Pekka Niiranen]

Hi,
        square brakets [ and ] mark a charater class. Try using normal
brakets ( and ) instead.

-pekka-

Ed wrote:

> hi
> i am trying to create an re expression which will match y = mx + c,
> with m and c = a number upto 4 digits long. I first came up with
>
> self.linear = re.compile("y = [\d+?]x [+|-] \d+", re.IGNORECASE)
>
> this doesnt work though and i dont understand why.
> thanks
> ed