New submission from Alcolo Alcolo:

Why
re.findall('^|a', 'a') != ['', 'a'] ?

We have:
re.findall('^|a', ' a') == ['', 'a']
and
re.findall('$|a', ' a') == ['a', '']

Capturing '^' take the 1st character. It's look like a bug ...

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components: Regular Expressions
messages: 250364
nosy: Alcolo Alcolo, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Capturing start of line '^'
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.4

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