Question

Which of the following special characters represents a comment (that is, the contents of the parenthesis are simply ignores)?

(a) (?:…)

(b) (?=…)

(c) (?!…)

(d) (?#…)

This question was addressed to me in homework.

The query is from Regular Expressions in division Regular Expressions and Files of Python

Answer 1

The correct choice is (d) (?#…)

Easy explanation - The special character (?#…) represent a comment, that is, the contents of the parenthesis are simply ignored.