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Author	Joshua.Landau
Recipients	Joshua.Landau, docs@python
Date	2014-05-28.14:39:23
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The documentation for re.search does not state that it returns the first match. This should be added, or a clarification added if this is implementation-defined. https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.search --- See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23906400/is-regular-expression-search-guaranteed-to-return-first-match

The documentation for re.search does not state that it returns the first match. This should be added, or a clarification added if this is implementation-defined.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.search

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See also

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23906400/is-regular-expression-search-guaranteed-to-return-first-match

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-05-28 14:39:26	Joshua.Landau	set	recipients: + Joshua.Landau, docs@python
2014-05-28 14:39:26	Joshua.Landau	set	messageid: <1401287966.38.0.860641123785.issue21593@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014-05-28 14:39:25	Joshua.Landau	link	issue21593 messages
2014-05-28 14:39:24	Joshua.Landau	create