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Author christian.heimes
Recipients christian.heimes, docs@python, triuan
Date 2016-09-13.20:40:41
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The documentation is correct. It explains the difference between a default match (greedy) and a non-greedy match.

>>> re.match('(a{3,5})', 'aaaaa').group(1)
'aaaaa'
>>> re.match('(a{3,5}?)', 'aaaaa').group(1)
'aaa'
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