Jacques Grove <jacq...@tripitinc.com> added the comment: Spoke too soon, although this might be a valid divergence in behavior:
$ cat test.py import re, regex text = "test: 2" print regex.sub('(test)\W+(\d+)(?:\W+(TEST)\W+(\d))?', '\\2 \\1, \\4 \\3', text) print re.sub('(test)\W+(\d+)(?:\W+(TEST)\W+(\d))?', '\\2 \\1, \\4 \\3', text) $ python test.py 2 test, Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 6, in <module> print re.sub('(test)\W+(\d+)(?:\W+(TEST)\W+(\d))?', '\\2 \\1, \\4 \\3', text) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/re.py", line 151, in sub return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/re.py", line 278, in filter return sre_parse.expand_template(template, match) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/sre_parse.py", line 787, in expand_template raise error, "unmatched group" sre_constants.error: unmatched group ---------- _______________________________________ 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