S. Zhang <spz...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Thanks. But if talking about empty matches, there would be endless empty matches at the end in such cases. So in my opinion, [^\.]*$ should match txt plus the empty match because the greedy rule applies here. On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:37 PM Ma Lin <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Ma Lin <malin...@163.com> added the comment: > > The re.sub() doc said: > Changed in version 3.7: Empty matches for the pattern are replaced when > adjacent to a previous non-empty match. > > IMO 3.7+ behavior is more reasonable, and it fixed a bug, see issue25054. > > ---------- > nosy: +malin > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <https://bugs.python.org/issue41555> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41555> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
