[Tutor] Issues with regex escaping on \{
gpo
goodpotatoes at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 29 21:47:57 CEST 2009
Thanks! The ? got rid of the greediness!
vince spicer wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:35 AM, gpo <goodpotatoes at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> your grouping (.+) appears to be greedy, you can make it non-greedy with a
> question mark
>
> EX:
>
> pUserID=re.compile('UserID:\s+{(.+?)}',re.I)
>
> Vince
>
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