Message 69438 - Python tracker

Author	mrabarnett
Recipients	filip, gvanrossum, mkc, mrabarnett
Date	2008-07-08.16:39:15
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Message-id	<1215535159.15.0.376964055081.issue3262@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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There appear to be 2 opinions on this issue: 1. It's a bug, a corner case that got missed. 2. It's always been like this, so it's probably a design decision, although no-one can't point to where or when the decision was made... Looking at the code, I think it's a bug. Expected behaviour: if 'pattern' is a non-capturing regex, then re.split(pattern, text) == re.sub(pattern, MARKER, text).split(MARKER).

There appear to be 2 opinions on this issue:

1. It's a bug, a corner case that got missed.

2. It's always been like this, so it's probably a design decision,
although no-one can't point to where or when the decision was made...

Looking at the code, I think it's a bug.

Expected behaviour: if 'pattern' is a non-capturing regex, then
re.split(pattern, text) == re.sub(pattern, MARKER, text).split(MARKER).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-07-08 16:39:19	mrabarnett	set	spambayes_score: 0.0952865 -> 0.0952865 recipients: + mrabarnett, gvanrossum, mkc, filip
2008-07-08 16:39:19	mrabarnett	set	spambayes_score: 0.0952865 -> 0.0952865 messageid: <1215535159.15.0.376964055081.issue3262@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-07-08 16:39:18	mrabarnett	link	issue3262 messages
2008-07-08 16:39:17	mrabarnett	create