A bug in Python's regular expression engine?

[MonkeeSage]

On Nov 27, 10:52 am, MonkeeSage <MonkeeS... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 27, 10:19 am, "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality"
>
> <ihates... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >     That is funny.  Thank you for your help...
> >     Just for clarification, what does the "r" in your code do?
>
> It means a "raw" string (as you know ruby, think of it like %w{}):
>
> This page explains about string literal prefixes (see especially the
> end-notes):
>
> http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html
>
> HTH,
> Jordan

Arg! %w{} should have said %q{}