Seth Troisi <brain...@gmail.com> added the comment: Given David Murray's input I think the example would be best done as
>>> re.search(r'(\w+) \1', "can you do the can can?") # Matches the duplicate >>> can <_sre.SRE_Match object at ...> I want to stress that the documentation is not wrong but confusing, especially for someone unfamiliar with regression expressions. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12162> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
