two or more whitespace regular expression?

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Manuel Hendel [SMTP:manuel at hendel.net]
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 07:33:50AM +0000, Alex Martelli wrote:
> > import re
> > twoormorewhites = re.compile(r'\s\s+')
>                                ^
> What is the "r" for? I tried to find something about this in the docs
> (Regular Expression HowTo , etc.) but I couldn't find anything.
 
It's a raw string - see
n<http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/strings.html>.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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