Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment: Thanks for the explanation, but isn't this a backward incompatible feature? I think it should be enabled only when the re.NEW flag is passed. The idiom [][...] is also quite common, so I think it might break different programs if regex has a different behavior.
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