Possible re bug

[Barry Scott]

Please please fix you email client so that your replies stay with the
emails you are replying to.

Barry


On 28/12/2022 19:09, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Alexander Richert writes:
> |print(re.findall(".*","pattern"))
> |yields ['pattern',''] which is not what I was expecting.
>
>    The asterisk is "greedy", so I agree that it should consume
>    /everything/ including all the empty strings at the end.
>    To work around this, one can use '^.*' (no smiley intended).
>
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