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Author	tzot
Recipients	georg.brandl, tzot
Date	2010-10-19.07:50:12
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Message-id	<1287474614.93.0.792419717728.issue10139@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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As I see it, it's more like: >>> re.search('a.c\|a.\|.c', 'abc').group() producing 'bc' instead of 'abc'. Substitute "(?<=^A)" for "a" and "(?=Z$)" for "c" in the pattern above. In your example, the first part ('bc') does not match the whole string ('abc'). In my example, the first part ('(?<=^A).(?=Z$)') matches the whole string ('A***Z').

As I see it, it's more like:

>>> re.search('a.*c|a.*|.*c', 'abc').group()

producing 'bc' instead of 'abc'. Substitute "(?<=^A)" for "a" and "(?=Z$)" for "c" in the pattern above.

In your example, the first part ('bc') does not match the whole string ('abc'). In my example, the first part ('(?<=^A).*(?=Z$)') matches the whole string ('A***Z').

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-10-19 07:50:15	tzot	set	recipients: + tzot, georg.brandl
2010-10-19 07:50:14	tzot	set	messageid: <1287474614.93.0.792419717728.issue10139@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-10-19 07:50:13	tzot	link	issue10139 messages
2010-10-19 07:50:12	tzot	create