[Linux-aus] python regex

[Cameron Simpson]

On 08Oct2013 07:15, Daniel Black <daniel.subs at internode.on.net> wrote:
| On 07/10/13 18:55, Nick Edwards wrote:
| > On 10/7/13, Daniel Black <daniel.subs at internode.on.net> wrote:
| > what I am after is a python regex that matches on   "" or "foo"
| 
| (|foo)

Also:

  (foo)?

though I also would have used the first version.

Cheers,
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Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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