Jacques Grove <jacq...@tripitinc.com> added the comment: And another, bit less pathological, testcase. Sorry for the ugly testcase; it was much worse before I boiled it down :-)
$ cat test.py import re, regex text = "\nTest\nxyz\nxyz\nEnd" regexp = '(\nTest(\n+.+?){0,2}?)?\n+End' print re.findall(regexp, text) print regex.findall(regexp, text) $ python test.py [('\nTest\nxyz\nxyz', '\nxyz')] [('', '')] ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2636> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com