* lothar wrote: > a non-greedy match - as implicitly defined in the documentation - is a > match in which there is no proper substring in the return which could also > match the regex.
Your argumentation is starting at the wrong place. The documentation doesn't define the bahviour, it tries to describe it (wrongly, as said). > you are skirting the issue as to why a matcher should not be able to > return a non-greedy match. > > there is no theoretical reason why it can not be done. I'm sure, you can explain the theory behind regexps in order to substantiate your statement. *shrug* nd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
