Strange re behavior: normal?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Mike Rovner wrote:
> IMHO that split behavior is a bug although technicaly it is not.
> (From re manual:
> "This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to
> those found in Perl.")

is "split" really a matching operation?

fact is, all methods have Python-specific behaviour.  it's just the RE
language itself that's based on Perl.

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