[New-bugs-announce] [issue22760] re.sub does only first 16 replacements if re.S is used

[Michael Del Monte]

New submission from Michael Del Monte:

Easily reproduced:

re.sub('x', 'a', "x"*20, re.S)

returns 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaxxxx'

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components: Regular Expressions
messages: 230216
nosy: ezio.melotti, mgdelmonte, mrabarnett
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: re.sub does only first 16 replacements if re.S is used
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

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