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Author mrabarnett
Recipients belegnar, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
Date 2019-07-25.23:16:22
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For historical reasons, if it isn't valid as a repeat then it's a literal. This is true in other regex implementations, and is by no means unique to the re module.
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