Hi, https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html#repeating-things states: *You can omit either m or n; in that case, a reasonable value is assumed for the missing value. Omitting m is interpreted as a lower limit of 0, while omitting n results in an upper bound of infinity.* This is correct, for the cases of {m,} and {,n}. What isn't covered is the simplest case {m} which matches the preceding item exactly m times. Regards, Derek PS https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html is generally one of the best bits of software documentation I have come across: it's a model of simplicity and clarity, on a notoriously difficult topic.
Thank you for the report! This was fixed in https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/111110 On 16. 07. 23 0:24, Derek Mead wrote:
Hi,
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html#repeating-things <https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html#repeating-things> states:
/You can omit either m or n; in that case, a reasonable value is assumed for the missing value. Omitting m is interpreted as a lower limit of 0, while omitting n results in an upper bound of infinity./
This is correct, for the cases of {m,} and {,n}. What isn't covered is the simplest case {m} which matches the preceding item exactly m times.
Regards, Derek
PS https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html <https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html> is generally one of the best bits of software documentation I have come across: it's a model of simplicity and clarity, on a notoriously difficult topic.
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