No doubt I should know this regex point but ..
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Aug 14 11:25:21 EDT 2003
In article <545cb8c2.0308140709.281fb610 at posting.google.com>,
Jim Hefferon <jhefferon at smcvt.edu> wrote:
>
>I am writing a class that walks through a file tree and (among other things)
>filters out which files it considers. So I want to have
> __init__( .. ,filterExpression='..')
>For the default I want to filter nothing. So I need a Python regular
>expression that never matches. What is (the best) one?
None
Seriously, make the default None, and test for it before trying a regex.
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