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

[Stéphane Wirtel]

Stéphane Wirtel <stephane at wirtel.be> added the comment:

Python 3.7.2 (default, Jan 16 2019, 19:49:22) 
[GCC 8.2.1 20181215 (Red Hat 8.2.1-6)] on linux
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>>> import re
>>> s = '[a]'
>>> print(*re.findall(r'\[.*]', s))
[a]
>>> print(*re.findall(r'\[.*]', s))
[a]
>>>

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