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Author	mrabarnett
Recipients	jfrechet, mrabarnett, niemeyer, rsc, timehorse
Date	2008-09-24.17:59:56
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Message-id	<1222279197.41.0.576879603811.issue1647489@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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What should: [m.groups() for m in re.finditer(r'(^z)\|(^q)\|(\w+)', 'abc')] return? Should the second group also yield a zero-width match before the third group is tried? I think it probably should. Does Perl?

What should:

    [m.groups() for m in re.finditer(r'(^z*)|(^q*)|(\w+)', 'abc')]

return? Should the second group also yield a zero-width match before the
third group is tried? I think it probably should. Does Perl?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-09-24 17:59:57	mrabarnett	set	recipients: + mrabarnett, niemeyer, jfrechet, rsc, timehorse
2008-09-24 17:59:57	mrabarnett	set	messageid: <1222279197.41.0.576879603811.issue1647489@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-09-24 17:59:56	mrabarnett	link	issue1647489 messages
2008-09-24 17:59:56	mrabarnett	create