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30 Oct
2015
30 Oct
'15
11:07 a.m.
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Note that lookbehind assertions still are not documented in Regular Expression HOWTO. The example that demonstrates negative lookahead assertion is ".*[.](?!bat$)[^.]*$". But then we should explain why ".*" is changed to "[^.]*". ---------- nosy: +akuchling, georg.brandl, serhiy.storchaka stage: -> needs patch versions: -Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25517> _______________________________________