Matthew Barnett added the comment: In a regex, '+' is a metacharacter meaning "repeated one or more times".
"libstdc+" will match "libstd" followed by "c" repeated one or more times. "libstdc++" will match "libstd" followed by "c" repeated one or more times, but then there's another "+", which it takes to mean that you want the repeat to be repeated, hence the exception. '*' is also a metacharacter, this one meaning "repeated zero or more times". In summary, not a bug. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22119> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
