[New-bugs-announce] [issue4219] Problem with regular expression

[Carlos Eduardo Klock]

New submission from Carlos Eduardo Klock <ceklock at gmail.com>:

Hello, 

I am having a weird problem with regex. I am trying to get the tokens
that match the pattern below, but it is not working only for a specific
case. I do this for many lines of text, and it works, except for the
string '1214578800'.

Any idea of what is happening? Is it a problem of my code or a bug in
regular expressions?

Thanks for any help,

Carlos.



import re
r =
re.compile(",'([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])'[,|)]")
text =
"('25','2','3','2','0','1','0','0/350','30','21','5','','1211641200','1214578800','0','2','1214662622');"
timestamps = r.findall(text)
print timestamps


OUTPUT:
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:31:22) 
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on Trabalho15, Standard
>>> ['1211641200', '1214662622']

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components: Regular Expressions
messages: 75286
nosy: carlosklock
severity: normal
status: open
title: Problem with regular expression
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5

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