[issue41080] re.sub treats * incorrectly?

Ryan Westlund added the comment: Sorry, I forgot the pydoc docs don't have as much information as the online docs. On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 1:54 PM Ezio Melotti wrote: > > Ezio Melotti added the comment: > > This behavior was changed in 3.7: "Empty matches for the

[issue41080] re.sub treats * incorrectly?

New submission from Ryan Westlund : ``` >>> re.sub('a*', '-', 'a') '--' >>> re.sub('a*', '-', 'aa') '--' >>> re.sub('a*', '-', 'aaa') '--' ```