[issue30720] re.sub substitution match group contains wrong value after unmatched pattern was processed

[William Budd]

William Budd added the comment:

I now see you're right of course. Not a bug after all. Thank you.

I mistakenly assumed that the group boundary ")" would delimit the end of the non-greedy match group. I.e., ".*?</p>" versus ".*?</p></div>".

I don't see a way to accomplish the "even less greedy" variant I'm looking for though...

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