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re.sub() problem (regular expression)

Hi all,

I have read a re.sub() that confused me.

s = 'P & Q'
s = re.sub(r'([a-zA-Z0-9_.]+)', r'Expr("\1")', s)

What's "\1" and the whole re.sub() mean?

Best regards,
Davy
Dec 14 '07 #1
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On Dec 13, 9:00 pm, Davy <zhushe...@gmail.comwrote:
>
What's "\1" and the whole re.sub() mean?
Read about backreferences here:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/brackets.html

Also see the entry on parentheses here:

http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html

rick

Dec 14 '07 #2

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