Message390175
The regex /^((x*)\2{3}(?=\2$))*x$/ matches powers of 5 in unary, expressed as strings of "x" characters whose length is the number.
The following command line should print "1", but prints nothing:
python -c 'import regex; regex.match(r"^((x*)\2{3}(?=\2$))*x$", "x"*125) and print(1)'
However, this command does print "1":
python -c 'import regex; regex.match(r"^((x*)\2\2\2(?=\2$))*x$", "x"*125) and print(1)'
And so does this one:
python -c 'import re; re.match(r"^((x*)\2{3}(?=\2$))*x$", "x"*125) and print(1)'
The expression "\2\2\2" should behave exactly the same as "\2{3}", but in the "regex" module it does not.
Solving the following Code Golf Stack Exchange challenge is what led me to discover this bug:
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/211840/is-that-number-a-two-bit-number%ef%b8%8f/222792#222792 |
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2021-04-04 07:52:01 | Davidebyzero | set | recipients:
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2021-04-04 07:52:01 | Davidebyzero | set | messageid: <1617522721.12.0.340315705312.issue43726@roundup.psfhosted.org> |
2021-04-04 07:52:01 | Davidebyzero | link | issue43726 messages |
2021-04-04 07:52:00 | Davidebyzero | create | |
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