Re: [PATCH 10/28] qapi: Rework name checking in preparation of stricter checking

[John Snow]

On 3/23/21 10:20 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > -valid_name = re.compile(r'^(__[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+_)?'
> > -                        '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*$')
> I'm assuming python concatenates r'' with '' in the obvious manner...

FWIW, I don't think it does, actually. I believe you do need to spell 
out each individual string constant with what type it is.

(In this case, missing the second r has no effect as there are no 
backslash sequences in the string.)

--js