[issue29291] Misleading text in the documentation of re library for non-greedy match

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

The documentation doesn't look incorrect to me. The non-greedy match doesn't fallback to the greedy match, it always matches as few characters as *possible* will be matched. For example a.match("<a> b <c><span><d> e <f><span>") matches "<a> b <c><span>", not "<a> b <c><span><d> e <f><span>".

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nosy: +serhiy.storchaka

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