> Hi everybody, > > I'm having a ball with the power of regular expression but I stumbled > on something I don't quite understand: > > theOriginalString = "spam:(?P<first>.*) ham:(?P<second>.*)" > aReplacementPattern = "\(\?P<first>.*\)" > aReplacementString= "foo" > re.sub(aReplacementPattern , aReplacementString, theOriginalString) > > results in : > > "spam:foo" > > instead, I was expecting: > > "spam:foo ham:" > > Why is that? > > Thanks for your help! > > Manu > > I think that .* in your replacement pattern matches ".*) ham:(?P<second>.*" in your original string which seems correct for a regexp. Perhaps you should try aReplacementPattern = "\(\?P<first>\.\*\)" or use replace() since your replacement pattern is not a regexp anymore.
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