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Author terry.reedy
Recipients docs@python, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, jcea, mrabarnett, sjmachin, terry.reedy
Date 2012-02-04.04:56:08
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I presume you intend regex to match the spec rather than bugs. So if re has a bug in an obsure corner case and the spec is ambiguous, as I have the impression is the case here, using the interpretation embodied in regex would avoid creating a conflict.
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2012-02-04 04:56:09terry.reedysetrecipients: + terry.reedy, georg.brandl, jcea, sjmachin, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, docs@python
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