Re: convert: properly escape some single-backslashes. (issue2401042)

[Phil Holmes]

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> On 2010/10/11 18:18:37, dak wrote:
> > python/convertrules.py:2992: _ ("\\RemoveEmpty*StaffContext -> \*Staff
> > \\RemoveEmptyStaves"))
> > Any particular reason that \*Staff does not get the backslash doubled
> as well?
>
> The reason was that I didn't know what \* did -- I'm guessing it has a
> special meaning in regex -- so I thought I should leave it alone.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
> http://codereview.appspot.com/2401042/

* has a special meaning in a regex - repeat the preceding class zero or more 
times - so it has to be escaped with a backslash in a regex.

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Phil Holmes
Bug Squad