New submission from Jason Stumpf:
>>> re.match('(a|ab)*',('aba')).group(0)
'a'
According to the documentation, the * should match as many repetitions as
possible. 2 are possible, it matches 1.
Reversing the order of the operands of | changes the behaviour.
>>> re.match('(ab|a)*',('aba')).group(0)
'aba'
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messages: 198116
nosy: Jason.Stumpf
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Regular expressions: * does not match as many repetitions as possible.
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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