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Author r.david.murray
Recipients Mark.Shannon, Rick Otten, docs@python, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, r.david.murray
Date 2015-02-27.02:18:19
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The thing is, what you describe is fundamental to how regular expressions work.  I'm not sure it makes sense to add a specific mention of it to the '|' docs, since it applies to all regexes.
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