Regular Expression bug?

[avi.e.gross at gmail.com]

José,

Matching can be greedy. Did it match to the last space?

What you want is a pattern that matches anything except a space (or whitespace) followed b matching a space or something similar.

Or use a construct that makes matching non-greedy.

Avi

-----Original Message-----
From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avi.e.gross=gmail.com at python.org> On Behalf Of jose isaias cabrera
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2023 2:23 PM
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Subject: Regular Expression bug?

Greetings.

For the RegExp Gurus, consider the following python3 code:
<code>
import re
s = "pn=align upgrade sd=2023-02-"
ro = re.compile(r"pn=(.+) ")
r0=ro.match(s)
>>> print(r0.group(1))
align upgrade
</code>

This is wrong. It should be 'align' because the group only goes up-to the space. Thoughts? Thanks.

josé

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