On Apr 8, 3:40 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: ... > Group 1 and group 4 match '='. > Group 1 and group 3 match '1234'. > > If a group matches then any earlier match of that group is discarded, Wow, that makes this much clearer! I wonder if this behaviour shouldn't be mentioned in some form in the python docs? Thanks much!
> so: > > Group 1 finishes with '1234'. > Group 2 finishes with 'in'. > Group 3 finishes with '1234'. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
