Using a function for regular expression substitution

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/29/2010 10:22 AM, naugiedoggie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a problem with using a function as the replacement in
> re.sub().
>
> Here is the function:
>
> def normalize(s) :
>      return
> urllib.quote(string.capwords(urllib.unquote(s.group('provider'))))

To debug your problem, I would start with print(s) in the function and 
if still not clear, unnest the expression and print intermediate results.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy