Mike Coleman added the comment: Well, I think we can conclude that it's expected by *them*. :-) I still find it surprising, and it somewhat lessens the utility of re.split for my use cases. (I think re.finditer may also suffer from the same problem, but I don't recall.)
If you look at the comments attached to the patch for this bug, it looks like akuchling and rhettinger more or less saw this as being a bug worth fixing, though there were questions about exactly what the correct fix should be. http://bugs.python.org/issue988761 One comment about the your doc fix: You highlight a fairly useless zero-character match (e.g., "x*") to demonstrate the behavior, which might leave the user scratching his head. (I think this case was originally mentioned as a corner case, not one that would be useful.) It'd be nice to highlight a more useful case like '^(?=S)' or perhaps a little more generically something like '^(?=HEADER)' or '^(?=BEGIN)' which is a usage that tripped me up in the first place. Thanks for working on this! ____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue852532> ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
