New submission from py.user <port...@yandex.ru>:
>>> import re
>>> re.search(r'(?<=(a|b))(\w+)', 'abc').groups()
('a', 'bc')
>>> re.search(r'(?<=(^))(\w+)', 'abc').groups()
('', 'abc')
>>> re.search(r'(?<=(^|$))(\w+)', 'abc').groups()
('', 'abc')
>>> re.search(r'(?<=($|^))(\w+)', 'abc').groups()
('', 'abc')
>>> re.search(r'(?<=(^|a))(\w+)', 'abc').groups()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/functools.py", line 176, in wrapper
result = cache[key]
KeyError: (<class 'str'>, '(?<=(^|a))(\\w+)', 0)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/re.py", line 158, in search
return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/re.py", line 255, in _compile
return _compile_typed(type(pattern), pattern, flags)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/functools.py", line 180, in wrapper
result = user_function(*args, **kwds)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/re.py", line 267, in _compile_typed
return sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_compile.py", line 495, in compile
code = _code(p, flags)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_compile.py", line 480, in _code
_compile(code, p.data, flags)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_compile.py", line 115, in _compile
raise error("look-behind requires fixed-width pattern")
sre_constants.error: look-behind requires fixed-width pattern
>>>
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components: Library (Lib), Regular Expressions
messages: 153836
nosy: ezio.melotti, py.user
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: In extensions (?...) the lookbehind assertion cannot choose between the
beginning of string and a letter
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue14069>
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