[New-bugs-announce] [issue27669] Bug in re.fullmatch() specific to Windows XP

[Geoffrey Odhner]

New submission from Geoffrey Odhner:

I have found a bug in python’s re.fullmatch() function when it’s running on Windows XP.  On Mac OS X or Windows 7 the bug doesn’t occur.  When I use fullmatch() with a regular expression that ends with ‘$’ it fails to match the string (on XP, but it matches on Mac OS and Win 7), but when I use that same regular expression with match() it works.  I’m not in urgent need of a fix, since replacing those particular calls with match() gets around the problem and is giving consistent behavior across platforms, but the inconsistency in behavior in fullmatch() between platforms should be fixed.  I’m using python 3.4.3 on all three platforms.

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components: Regular Expressions
messages: 271853
nosy: ezio.melotti, ggodhner, mrabarnett
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Bug in re.fullmatch() specific to Windows XP
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4

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