re documentation error

[Duncan Booth]

"Carlos Gaston Alvarez" <cgaston at moonqzie.com> wrote in
news:mailman.1000734141.1821.python-list at python.org: 

> I am reading the doc at
> http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/regex/node19.html and the example is
> the 5.2 (search and replace). I run the example (at last) and the
> results where 
> 
>>>> re.sub('x*', '-', 'abxc') '-a-b--c-' re.sub('x', '-', 'abxc')
> 'ab-c'
> 
> there is an small diference, in doc it said that the first one should
> return 
> 
> '-a-b-d-'
> 
> when it returned
> 
> '-a-b--c-'

That looks like a bug. I just checked and 1.5.2 gives '-a-b-d-' whereas 2.1 
give '-a-b--c-' which as you note is not the advertised behaviour. I 
suggest you post a bug report on sourceforge.


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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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