Simon Willison’s Weblog

Escaping regular expression characters in JavaScript (updated). The JavaScript regular expression meta-character escaping code I posted back in 2006 has some serious flaws—I’ve just posted an update to the original post.

# 6:23 pm / escaping, javascript, regular-expressions, recovered

Python 2.7 Release. Includes three of my favourite features from Python 3: odicts, set literals and set and dictionary comprehensions.

# 11:21 pm / dictionaries, odict, python, python3, sets, recovered

python/trunk/Lib/httplib.py in 1994 (via) Python’s original httplib implementation, checked in by Guido 16 years and 4 months ago. Not much younger than the Web itself.

# 11:25 pm / guido-van-rossum, http, python, recovered, httplib