The reconvert Module

(Obsolete) The reconvert module, shown in Example 14-34, converts old-style regular expressions as used by the regex module to the new style used by the re module. It can also be used as a command-line tool.

Example 14-34. Using the reconvert Module

File: reconvert-example-1.py

import reconvert

for pattern in "abcd", "a(b*c)d", "":
 print pattern, "=>", reconvert.convert(pattern)

abcd => abcd
a(b*c)d => a(b*c)d
 => w+