Message 334601 - Python tracker

Author	mrabarnett
Recipients	davisjam, effbot, ezio.melotti, malin, mrabarnett, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date	2019-01-30.23:11:43
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It matches, and the span is (0, 2). The only way that it can match like that is for the capture group to match the 'a', and the final 'b' to match the 'b'. Therefore, re.search(r'(ab\|a)*b', 'ab').groups() should be ('a', ), as it is for the pattern with a greedy repeat.

It matches, and the span is (0, 2).

The only way that it can match like that is for the capture group to match the 'a', and the final 'b' to match the 'b'.

Therefore, re.search(r'(ab|a)*b', 'ab').groups() should be ('a', ), as it is for the pattern with a greedy repeat.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-01-30 23:11:45	mrabarnett	set	recipients: + mrabarnett, tim.peters, effbot, rhettinger, ezio.melotti, serhiy.storchaka, malin, davisjam
2019-01-30 23:11:43	mrabarnett	set	messageid: <1548889903.99.0.66031702265.issue35859@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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