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 ... ---------- 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 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25054> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com