New submission from Joshua Landau: The documentation for re.search does not state that it returns the first match. This should be added, or a clarification added if this is implementation-defined.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.search --- See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23906400/is-regular-expression-search-guaranteed-to-return-first-match ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 219270 nosy: Joshua.Landau, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Clarify re.search documentation first match versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21593> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
