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Author jaredgrubb
Recipients jaredgrubb
Date 2013-01-17.23:49:03
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re.match matches, but the capture groups are empty. That's not possible.

Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin
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>>> import re
>>> re.match('.*', 'stuff').group()  # greedy matches and captures; cool.
'stuff'
>>> re.match('.*?', 'stuff').group() # nongreedy matches (cool) but doesnt capture (huh?)
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