Re: convert: properly escape some single-backslashes. (issue2401042)

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:17:44PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
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> >On 2010/10/11 18:18:37, dak wrote:
> >>python/convertrules.py:2992: _ ("\\RemoveEmpty*StaffContext -> \*Staff
> >>\\RemoveEmptyStaves"))
> >>Any particular reason that \*Staff does not get the backslash doubled
> >as well?
> >
> >The reason was that I didn't know what \* did -- I'm guessing it has a
> >special meaning in regex -- so I thought I should leave it alone.
> 
> * has a special meaning in a regex - repeat the preceding class zero
> or more times - so it has to be escaped with a backslash in a regex.

Thanks!

So that's a good reason to avoid writing \\*Staff -- we don't want
a literal \ in the output, and we do want a literal *Staff.

Cheers,
- Graham