New submission from Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com>:
compiled regex objects' match method offers an optional "pos" parameter
described to be roughly equivalent to slicing except for how it treats the "^"
operation. See http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.RegexObject.search
However, the behavior of lookbehind assertions also differs:
>>> re.compile("(?<=a)b").match("ab", 1)
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x...>
>>> re.compile("(?<=a)b").match("ab"[1:])
>>>
This alone might be a documentation bug, but the behavior is also inconsistent
with the behavior of lookahead assertions, which do *not* look past the endpos:
>>> re.compile("a(?=b)").match("ab", 0, 1)
>>> re.compile("a(?=b)").match("ab")
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x...>
>>>
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components: Regular Expressions
messages: 153188
nosy: Devin Jeanpierre, ezio.melotti
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Lookbehind assertions go behind the start position for the match
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2
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