[Python-Dev] Re: sre.split question (original) (raw)

Mike Coleman mkc+dated+1091668631.4741a6 at mathdogs.com
Wed Jul 21 03:24:24 CEST 2004


Chris King <colanderman at gmail.com> writes:

This precludes use of patterns that can successfully match zero-length strings (e.g. r'(?<=[A-Za-z])(?=[^A-Za-z])'.

As you say, it's very useful to be able to match such zero-length patterns. I posted a patch that fixes this, but have not heard any comments on it. Please take a look and post a comment if you like.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=988761&group_id=5470&atid=305470

Mike



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