Matthew Barnett added the comment: See issue 17087: "Improve the repr for regular expression match objects".
It was decided that it might be a bad idea to show the entire matched portion of the string because it could be very long, so it's shown truncated if necessary. ---------- resolution: -> not a bug status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29074> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
