[issue30720] re.sub substitution match group contains wrong value after unmatched pattern was processed

[William Budd]

William Budd added the comment:

I don't understand... Isn't the "?" in ".*?" supposed to make the ".*" matching non-greedy, hence matching the first "</p>" rather than the last "</p>"?

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