with respect to the documentation, the module is broken. the module does not necessarily deliver a "minimal length" match for a non-greedy pattern.
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "lothar" wrote: > > > this is a bug and it needs to be fixed. > > it's not a bug, and it's not going to be "fixed". search, findall, finditer, sub, > etc. all scan the target string from left to right, and process the first location > (or all locations) where the pattern matches. > > </F> > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
