Some cleanup in the docs.
diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
index 131bb51..e237e6c 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
:Author: A.M. Kuchling
:Release: 0.05
-.. % TODO:
-.. % Document lookbehind assertions
-.. % Better way of displaying a RE, a string, and what it matches
-.. % Mention optional argument to match.groups()
-.. % Unicode (at least a reference)
+.. TODO:
+ Document lookbehind assertions
+ Better way of displaying a RE, a string, and what it matches
+ Mention optional argument to match.groups()
+ Unicode (at least a reference)
.. topic:: Abstract
@@ -91,8 +91,6 @@
characters. If you wanted to match only lowercase letters, your RE would be
``[a-z]``.
-.. % $
-
Metacharacters are not active inside classes. For example, ``[akm$]`` will
match any of the characters ``'a'``, ``'k'``, ``'m'``, or ``'$'``; ``'$'`` is
usually a metacharacter, but inside a character class it's stripped of its
@@ -679,8 +677,8 @@
>>> print re.search('^From', 'Reciting From Memory')
None
- .. % To match a literal \character{\^}, use \regexp{\e\^} or enclose it
- .. % inside a character class, as in \regexp{[{\e}\^]}.
+ .. To match a literal \character{\^}, use \regexp{\e\^} or enclose it
+ .. inside a character class, as in \regexp{[{\e}\^]}.
``$``
Matches at the end of a line, which is defined as either the end of the string,
@@ -696,8 +694,6 @@
To match a literal ``'$'``, use ``\$`` or enclose it inside a character class,
as in ``[$]``.
- .. % $
-
``\A``
Matches only at the start of the string. When not in :const:`MULTILINE` mode,
``\A`` and ``^`` are effectively the same. In :const:`MULTILINE` mode, they're
@@ -980,12 +976,8 @@
that the first character of the extension is not a ``b``. This is wrong,
because the pattern also doesn't match ``foo.bar``.
-.. % $
-
``.*[.]([^b]..|.[^a].|..[^t])$``
-.. % Messes up the HTML without the curly braces around \^
-
The expression gets messier when you try to patch up the first solution by
requiring one of the following cases to match: the first character of the
extension isn't ``b``; the second character isn't ``a``; or the third character
@@ -1013,16 +1005,12 @@
that something like ``sample.batch``, where the extension only starts with
``bat``, will be allowed.
-.. % $
-
Excluding another filename extension is now easy; simply add it as an
alternative inside the assertion. The following pattern excludes filenames that
end in either ``bat`` or ``exe``:
``.*[.](?!bat$|exe$).*$``
-.. % $
-
Modifying Strings
=================
@@ -1343,16 +1331,10 @@
\s*$ # Trailing whitespace to end-of-line
""", re.VERBOSE)
-This is far more readable than:
-
-.. % $
-
-::
+This is far more readable than::
pat = re.compile(r"\s*(?P<header>[^:]+)\s*:(?P<value>.*?)\s*$")
-.. % $
-
Feedback
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