Newbie backreference question
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Newbie backreference question

From: paulm <paulm@barley.vel.net>
Date: Thu Jun 30 2005 - 23:12:56 CEST



Hi,


        In perl I can do something like:



$a = 'test string';


$a =~ /test (\w+)/;


$b = $1;


print $b . "\n";



and my output would be "string".



        How might this snippet be written in python?



Thanks to all...


Received on Thu Sep 29 16:40:35 2005