[Linux] Regular expressions

[Nick Simicich]

At 06:58 AM 10/12/2000 -0400, Nick Seidenman wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Tim Jones wrote:
>
>> Regular expressions are also useful in Python 
>> (see the 're', 'regex', 'regsub' modules), 
>
>Since Tim brought it up, the re module supports both perl and emacs
>regular expression semantics.

Huh?  I thought that re module was perl, the regex module was emacs.  Heck,
you just mentioned this to me.

All that stuff just hidden away in modules.  :-)

Is r"\x" new syntax as well?  I see that the regex doc goes around the
world telling you when a backslash escapes something and when it doesn't so
you know when you have to double and when not, while the re doc just tells
you to use r"\x".

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