Possible re bug when using ".*"

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2022-12-28 19:07:06 +0000, MRAB wrote:
> On 2022-12-28 18:42, Alexander Richert - NOAA Affiliate via Python-list
> wrote:
> > print(re.sub(".*", "replacement", "pattern"))
> > yields the output "replacementreplacement".
[...]
> It's not a bug, it's a change in behaviour to bring it more into line with
> other regex implementations in other languages.

Interesting. Perl does indeed behave that way, too. Never noticed that
in 28 years of using it.

        hp

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