While trying to learn a little more about regular expressions, a tutorial suggested that you can use the \b to match a word boundary. However, the following snippet in the Python interpreter does not work as expected: >>> x = 'one two three' >>> y = re.search("\btwo\b", x) It should have been a match object if anything was matched, but it is None. Is the \b expression not supported in Python or am I using it wrong? Continue reading...