[TxMt] Python syntax breaks on # in regex string (r'#')

Alexander Ross alex.j.ross at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 20:39:46 UTC 2007


Hey Dirk,

I was attempting to match the comment style of "verbose" regular  
expressions... Unfortunately, there isn't a good way to tell whether  
or not those should be enabled, so I'm just going to remove it  
altogether.

–Alex

On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Dirk van Oosterbosch, IR labs wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I just got the latest build, Version 1.5.5 (1372), and I noticed  
> that the python language syntax is now somewhat broken for comment  
> characters (#) inside regular expression strings r'some regular  
> expression'.
>
> like:
> 	some_reg_string = r'#'
> shows up as illegal / incomplete syntax.
>
> And e.g. all my code following this line:
> 	parentPattern = re.compile(r'^#extends (\w+)\s*$')
> becomes:
> source.python
> meta.function-call.python
> meta.function-call.arguments.python
>
> which is a little confusing.
>
>
> best,
> dirk
>
>
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