Jason Stumpf added the comment: Even with the documentation to |, the documentation to * is wrong.
>>> re.match('(a|ab)*c',('abac')).group(0) 'abac' >From the doc: In general, if a string p matches A and another string q matches >B, the string pq will match AB. Since '(a|ab)*c' matches 'abac', and 'c' matches 'c', that means '(a|ab)*' matches 'aba'. It does so with 2 repetitions. Thus, in the example from my initial post, it was not matching with as many repetitions as possible. I think what you mean is that * attempts to match again after each match of the preceding regular expression. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19055> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com