debugging python regexes

July 5th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink

Neat trick from stackoverflow: the re.DEBUG flag for python regexes:


> re.compile('a(b+)a', re.DEBUG)
literal 97
subpattern 1
  max_repeat 1 65535
    literal 98
literal 97

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