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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka, slomo
Date 2020-02-19.13:24:51
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It is correct and documented behavior. ".*" matches two substrings: the whole string "bc" and an empty string at the end of the string.

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.sub and https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#changes-in-the-python-api.

The behavior before 3.7 was incorrect.
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