[New-bugs-announce] [issue36349] Including parentheses in a regular expression pattern enclosed by literal square bracket characters cause the square brackets not to be matched

[Farbod Safe]

New submission from Farbod Safe <farbod.safe at gmail.com>:

Below two print statements should give the same results but they don't:

import re

s = '[a]'

print(*re.findall(r'\[.*]',s))
[a]

print(*re.findall(r'\[(.*)]',s))
a

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messages: 338234
nosy: Farbod Safe2
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Including parentheses in a regular expression pattern enclosed by literal square bracket characters cause the square brackets not to be matched
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6

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