Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment: Actually '}' is not a metachar, the metachars should be only "|()[{.+*?^$\".
>>> re.match('^a+(}+)b+$', 'aaaa}}}}}bbb') <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb77aa860> >>> re.match('^a+(}+)b+$', 'aaaa}}}}}bbb').group(1) '}}}}}' ---------- nosy: +ezio.melotti _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11239> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com