* Sergey Schetinin wrote:
> Here's the session log:
>
>>>> _re_pair="(?(plus).|-)"
>>>> _re1=("(?P<plus>\+)"+_re_pair)
>>>> _re2=("((?P<plus>\+))"+_re_pair)
>>>> _re3=("(?:(?P<plus>\+))"+_re_pair)
>>>> _re4="(%s)"%_re3
>>>> import re
>>>> print [re.match(_re, "+a") and 'match' for _re in [_re1, _re2,
> _re3, _re4]]
> ['match', None, 'match', None]
>
> this is not the supposed behaivour. all theese patterns should match,
> right?
No, I suppose they shouldn't compile.
_re_pair should be (?P=plus).
nd
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