[issue1140] re.sub returns str when processing empty unicode string

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

Thanks, Fredrik.
Fixed in 2.6.
Committed revision 58098.
Someone else could backport to 2.5.
Shouldn't be merged into 3.0.

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