re documentation error

[Carlos Gaston Alvarez]

Yes, ok. I was answering Heiko why I thought it was a bad request to keep
the bug.

Chau,

Gaston


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: re documentation error


> Carlos Gaston Alvarez wrote:
>
> > Heiko Wundram:
> > > Look what it does (in my oppinion that is correct behaviour).
>
> > I dont agree.
> > * means {0,inifite}
> > so 'x*' matchs '', 'x', 'xx', 'xxxx', ...
> > it should be greedy. If not when you have
> > 'xxx' you can say that it is
> > '' + 'x' + '' + 'x' + '' + 'x' + ''
>
> I have no idea what you're talking about.
>
> Heiko correctly explained what the "sub" method in 2.0
> and later does when the pattern doesn't match at all.
>
> 1.5.2's RE engine does things a bit differently.
>
> This is a bug in the new engine, and has nothing to do
> with how the "*" operator works.
>
> </F>
>
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