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Author Jason.Stumpf
Recipients Jason.Stumpf
Date 2013-09-19.22:28:43
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>>> re.match('(a|ab)*',('aba')).group(0)
'a'

According to the documentation, the * should match as many repetitions as possible.  2 are possible, it matches 1.

Reversing the order of the operands of | changes the behaviour.

>>> re.match('(ab|a)*',('aba')).group(0)
'aba'
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