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Author ezio.melotti
Recipients Yujiri, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
Date 2020-06-22.17:54:14
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This behavior was changed in 3.7: "Empty matches for the pattern are replaced only when not adjacent to a previous empty match, so sub('x*', '-', 'abxd') returns '-a-b--d-'." [0]

See also bpo-32308 and bpo-25054.


[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.sub
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Date User Action Args
2020-06-22 17:54:14ezio.melottisetrecipients: + ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, Yujiri
2020-06-22 17:54:14ezio.melottisetmessageid: <1592848454.56.0.661343299041.issue41080@roundup.psfhosted.org>
2020-06-22 17:54:14ezio.melottilinkissue41080 messages
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