Subject: Re: bug#8585: 23.3; Feature Request/"patch": allow initial tabs for python tracebacks

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 16:36:20 -0400

Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]> writes:

> I have some tools that produce python tracebacks, but they add an
> initial tab.  BuildBot is one example.

>      (caml
> -     "^ *File \\(\"?\\)\\([^,\" \n\t<>]+\\)\\1, lines? \\([0-9]+\\)-?\\([0-9]+\\)?\\(?:$\\|,\
> +     "^\s-*File \\(\"?\\)\\([^,\" \n\t<>]+\\)\\1, lines? \\([0-9]+\\)-?\\([0-9]+\\)?\\(?:$\\|,\
>  \\(?: characters? \\([0-9]+\\)-?\\([0-9]+\\)?:\\)?\\([ \n]Warning:\\)?\\)"
>       2 (3 . 4) (5 . 6) (7))

Shouldn't it be `[\s-]*' rather than `\s-*'?  The latter is not
compatible with the old expression.