"lothar" wrote: > with respect to the documentation, the module is broken.
nope. > the module does not necessarily deliver a "minimal length" match for a > non-greedy pattern. it isn't supposed to: a regular expression describes a *set* of matching strings, and the engine is free to return any string from that set. Python's engine returns the *first* string it finds that belongs to the set. if you use a non-greedy operator, the engine will return the first non-greedy match it finds, not the overall shortest non-greedy match. if you don't want to understand how regular expressions work, don't use them. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
