[issue41555] re.sub replaces twice

[S. Zhang]

S. Zhang <spz1st at gmail.com> added the comment:

Thanks.   But if talking about empty matches, there would be endless empty
matches at the end in such cases.  So in my opinion, [^\.]*$ should match
txt plus the empty match because the greedy rule applies here.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:37 PM Ma Lin <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Ma Lin <malincns at 163.com> added the comment:
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> The re.sub() doc said:
> Changed in version 3.7: Empty matches for the pattern are replaced when
> adjacent to a previous non-empty match.
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> IMO 3.7+ behavior is more reasonable, and it fixed a bug, see issue25054.
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