Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> added the comment:
I'm not sure this is valid. First, I think I have a much easier example:
>>> import re
>>> re.search('bc|abc', 'abc').group()
'abc'
I assume you'd expect this to give 'bc' as well. However, for a string s,
"search" looks for matches looking at s, then looking at s[1:], then s[2:], and
so on. For s, it looks at both branches, and the second branch matches.
This can be inferred from the docs of "search": """Scan through string looking
for a location where the regular expression pattern produces a match;""", for
the first location a match is produced for the second branch.
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nosy: +georg.brandl
resolution: -> wont fix
status: open -> closed
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