[issue28136] RegEx documentation error
Christian Heimes
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Sep 13 16:40:41 EDT 2016
Christian Heimes added the comment:
The documentation is correct. It explains the difference between a default match (greedy) and a non-greedy match.
>>> re.match('(a{3,5})', 'aaaaa').group(1)
'aaaaa'
>>> re.match('(a{3,5}?)', 'aaaaa').group(1)
'aaa'
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nosy: +christian.heimes
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