Help with Regexp, \b

[John Machin]

On May 30, 1:30 am, andrew cooke <and... at acooke.org> wrote:

>
> That's what I thought it did...  Then I read the docs and confused
> "empty string" with "space"(!) and convinced myself otherwise.  I
> think I am going senile.

Not necessarily. Conflating concepts like "string containing
whitespace", "string containing space(s)", "empty aka 0-length
string", None, (ASCII) NUL, and (SQL) NULL appears to be an age-
independent problem :-)