Hendrik Lemelson added the comment: Thank you for clarifying this. While it still not seems really intuitive to me I can handle the behavior.
To summarize: It is not possible with re to have an optional ({0,1}) group that contains further subgroups, because re considers (0,0) to already fulfill the constraints for the outer group? ---------- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17257> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com