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Author Mark.Shannon
Recipients Mark.Shannon, Rick Otten, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
Date 2015-02-26.23:13:00
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This looks like the expected behaviour to me.
re.sub matches the leftmost occurence and the regular expression is greedy so (x|xy) will always match xy if it can.
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