re module non-greedy matches broken

[André Malo]

* lothar wrote:

> a non-greedy match - as implicitly defined in the documentation - is a
> match in which there is no proper substring in the return which could also
> match the regex.

Your argumentation is starting at the wrong place. The documentation doesn't
define the bahviour, it tries to describe it (wrongly, as said).

> you are skirting the issue as to why a matcher should not be able to
> return a non-greedy match.
> 
> there is no theoretical reason why it can not be done.

I'm sure, you can explain the theory behind regexps in order to substantiate
your statement.

*shrug*

nd