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Regex for re.match not working as expected.

Oct 9th, 2008

I have the following code:

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import re
string = 'c:\test.doc'
if re.match(r":\\[0-9a-z]", string):
      ##r":\\[0-9a-z]" should match ':\t'
      print 'true'
else:
      print 'false'
import re
string = 'c:\test.doc'
if re.match(r":\\[0-9a-z]", string):
      ##r":\\[0-9a-z]" should match ':\t'
      print 'true'
else:
      print 'false'

the problem I am having is that this is always evaluating to false.