Issue 28136: RegEx documentation error (original) (raw)
Created on 2016-09-13 20:30 by triuan, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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Author: triuan (triuan)
Date: 2016-09-13 20:30
https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html
error: ...string 'aaaaaa', a{3,5} will match 5 'a' characters...
suggest correction: ...string 'aaaaaa', a{5} will match 5 'a' characters...
Author: triuan (triuan)
Date: 2016-09-13 20:34
https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html
error: ...string 'aaaaaa', a{3,5} will match 5 'a' characters...
suggest correction 2: ...string 'aaaaaa', a{3, 5} will match 3 to 5 'a' characters...
Author: Christian Heimes (christian.heimes) * 
Date: 2016-09-13 20:40
The documentation is correct. It explains the difference between a default match (greedy) and a non-greedy match.
re.match('(a{3,5})', 'aaaaa').group(1) 'aaaaa' re.match('(a{3,5}?)', 'aaaaa').group(1) 'aaa'
Author: triuan (triuan)
Date: 2016-09-13 23:57
thanks!
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