>  From: Magnus Lie Hetland [mailto:magnus@[...].org]
> 
>  Kevin Altis <altis@[...].com>:
>  >
>  > I started looking into the use of a regular expression for the
>  "Match whole
>  > words only" requirement for the Find and Replace dialogs. I
>  thought I would
>  > go ahead and list the resources I've found so far in case
>  anyone else dives
>  > into this. It doesn't appear that I can't simply use a word
>  boundary check
>  > \b pattern, so a more complex search is required. I may go
>  ahead and post to
>  > comp.lang.python since a Google groups search didn't turn up an answer.
> 
>  Hm. Can't you just use string.letters in a character class and do a
>  greedy search with a negative lookback? I don't see how that could
>  fail...
> 
>  (And why can't you rely on \b?)

Because I stupidly forgot to put an r in front of the '\b' so it got treated
as a backspace instead of a \b directive to the regular expression.

http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/regex/node13.html

Which of course I saw as soon as I posted the last message. \b looks like it
will probably work, testing it now.

ka



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