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Author WayneD
Recipients WayneD, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
Date 2020-03-20.18:06:18
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Another argument in favor of this being a bug, this does not exhibit the same doubling:

txt = ' test'
txt = re.sub(r'^\s*', '^', txt)

That always substitutes once.
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2020-03-20 18:06:18WayneDsetrecipients: + WayneD, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
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