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Kirill Smelkov
cpython
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Mar 14, 1997
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Guido van Rossum
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Hint about [\] trick to avoid quad backslashes.
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@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ is because Python doesn't remove backslashes from string literals if
they are followed by an unrecognized escape character.
\emph
{
However
}
, if you want to include a literal
\dfn
{
backslash
}
in a
regular expression represented as a string literal, you have to
\emph
{
quadruple
}
it. E.g.
\
to extract
\LaTeX\ \samp
{
\e
section
\{
{
\rm
\emph
{
quadruple
}
it or enclose it in a singleton character class.
E.g.
\
to extract
\LaTeX\ \samp
{
\e
section
\{
{
\rm
\ldots
}
\}
}
headers from a document, you can use this pattern:
\code
{
'
\e
\e
\e
\e
section
\{\e
(.*
\e
)
\}
'
}
.
\emph
{
Another exception:
}
\code
{
'
[
\e
]
section
\{\e
(.*
\e
)
\}
'
}
.
\emph
{
Another exception:
}
the escape sequece
\samp
{
\e
b
}
is significant in string literals
(where it means the ASCII bell character) as well as in Emacs regular
expressions (where it stands for a word boundary), so in order to
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@@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ is because Python doesn't remove backslashes from string literals if
they are followed by an unrecognized escape character.
\emph
{
However
}
, if you want to include a literal
\dfn
{
backslash
}
in a
regular expression represented as a string literal, you have to
\emph
{
quadruple
}
it. E.g.
\
to extract
\LaTeX\ \samp
{
\e
section
\{
{
\rm
\emph
{
quadruple
}
it or enclose it in a singleton character class.
E.g.
\
to extract
\LaTeX\ \samp
{
\e
section
\{
{
\rm
\ldots
}
\}
}
headers from a document, you can use this pattern:
\code
{
'
\e
\e
\e
\e
section
\{\e
(.*
\e
)
\}
'
}
.
\emph
{
Another exception:
}
\code
{
'
[
\e
]
section
\{\e
(.*
\e
)
\}
'
}
.
\emph
{
Another exception:
}
the escape sequece
\samp
{
\e
b
}
is significant in string literals
(where it means the ASCII bell character) as well as in Emacs regular
expressions (where it stands for a word boundary), so in order to
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