[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-483789 ] another *? greedy bug

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Bugs item #483789, was opened at 2001-11-20 06:15
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Category: Regular Expressions
Group: Python 2.2
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 7
Submitted By: Bastian Kleineidam (calvin)
Assigned to: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Summary: another *? greedy bug

Initial Comment:
Hm, it took me one hour debugging until I reached
the regex level of my application :)

Python 2.2b2 (#26, Nov 16 2001, 11:44:11) [MSC 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
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>>> re.search(r"a[^>]*?b", "a>b")
<SRE_Match object at 0x007CB680>

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>Comment By: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Date: 2001-12-09 08:17

Message:
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backed out of broken patch from July 2001.

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