Jason Stumpf added the comment:
I like that clearer description. "as produce matches" is more correct than "as
possible".
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Jason Stumpf added the comment:
I understand what's happening, but that is not what the documentation
describes. If the behaviour is correct, the documentation is incorrect.
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Jason Stumpf added the comment:
Sorry, that implication was backwards. I don't think I can prove from just the
documentation that '(a|ab)*' can match 'aba' in certain contexts.
If the docs said: "* attempts to match again after each match of the preceding
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Jason Stumpf added the comment:
Even with the documentation to |, the documentation to * is wrong.
>>> re.match('(a|ab)*c',('abac')).group(0)
'abac'
>From the doc: In general, if a string p matches A and another string q matches
>B, the string pq w
Changes by Jason Stumpf :
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New submission from Jason Stumpf:
>>> re.match('(a|ab)*',('aba')).group(0)
'a'
According to the documentation, the * should match as many repetitions as
possible. 2 are possible, it matches 1.
Reversing the order of the operands of | changes the b
