Regex anomaly

[Ganesan Rajagopal]

>>>>> mike klaas <mike.klaas at gmail.com> writes:

> In [48]: import re
> In [49]: reStr = r"([a-z]+)://"
> In [51]: against = "http://www.hello.com"
> In [53]: re.match(reStr, against).groups()
> Out[53]: ('http',)
> In [54]: re.match(reStr, against, re.I).groups()
> Out[54]: ('http',)
> In [55]: reCompiled = re.compile(reStr)
> In [56]: reCompiled.match(against).groups()
> Out[56]: ('http',)
> In [57]: reCompiled.match(against, re.I).groups()
> Out[57]: ('tp',)

I can reproduce this on Debian Linux testing, both python 2.3 and python
2.4. Seems like a bug. search() also exhibits the same behavior.

Ganesan


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