Matthew Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: The explanation of the zero-width bug is incorrect. What happens is this:
The functions for finditer(), findall(), etc, perform searches and want the next one to continue from where the previous match ended. However, if the match was actually zero-width then that would've made it search from where the previous search _started_, and it would be stuck forever. Therefore, after a zero-width match the caller of the search consumes a character. Unfortunately, that can result a character being 'missed'. The bug in re.split() is also the result of an incorrect fix to this zero-width problem. I suggest that the regex code should include the fix for the zero-width split bug; we can have code to turn it off unless a re.ZEROWIDTH flag is present, if that's the decision. The patch issue2636+01+09-02+17+18+19+20+21+24+26_speedup.diff includes some speedups. Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11669/issue2636+01+09-02+17+18+19+20+21+24+26_speedup.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2636> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
