On 3/2/23 12:28, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 06:24, jose isaias cabrera <jic...@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings.
For the RegExp Gurus, consider the following python3 code:
<code>
import re
s = "pn=align upgrade sd=2023-02-"
ro = re.compile(r"pn=(.+) ")
r0=ro.match(s)
print(r0.group(1))
align upgrade
</code>
This is wrong. It should be 'align' because the group only goes up-to
the space. Thoughts? Thanks.
Not a bug. Find the longest possible match that fits this; as long as
you can find a space immediately after it, everything in between goes
into the .+ part.
If you want to exclude spaces, either use [^ ]+ or .+?.
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html#greedy-versus-non-greedy
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