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Regex behaviour

#1

This code (inside a plugin, but also in the console)

import re
print(re.match("([a-z])\1\1",‘aaa’))

produces “None”. Why?
Thanks
Piero

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#2

Because you need to either use raw string notation or escape your back slashes.

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#3

Indeed. Thank you!
Piero

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