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Author xtreak
Recipients dchron, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, xtreak
Date 2020-04-12.14:06:10
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In the re module there is an experimental feature called Scanner.
Some unexpected behavior was found while working with it.
Here is an example:

>>> re.Scanner([('\w+=(\d+);', lambda s,g: s.match.group(1))]).scan('x=5;')
(['5;'], '')

The obvious error is the semicolon returned via capturing group 1.

Adding a dummy rule at the beginning, seems to solve that issue:

>>> re.Scanner([('z', None), ('\w+=(\d+);', lambda s,g: s.match.group(1))]).scan('x=5;')
(['5'], '')

Adding a capturing group around \w+ also returns the correct answer:

>>> re.Scanner([('z', None), ('(\w+)=(\d+);', lambda s,g: s.match.group(1))]).scan('x=5;')
(['x'], '')

But then, if I ask for the second group, the problem appears again:

>>> re.Scanner([('z', None), ('(\w+)=(\d+);', lambda s,g: s.match.group(2))]).scan('x=5;')
(['5;'], '')
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