[issue27800] Regular expressions with multiple repeat codes
R. David Murray
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Aug 19 11:03:59 EDT 2016
R. David Murray added the comment:
It seems perfectly logical and consistent to me. {4} is a repeat count, as is *. You get the same error if you do 'a?*', and the same bypass if you do '(a?)*' (though I haven't tested if that does anything useful :). You don't need the ?:, as far as I can tell, you just need to have the * modifying a group, making the group the "preceding regular expression".
----------
nosy: +r.david.murray
_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue27800>
_______________________________________
More information about the Python-bugs-list
mailing list