--- On Thu, 11/25/10, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> >
> Look at the spans:
>
> >>> for m in re.finditer('((.d.)*)*', 'adb'):
> print(m.span())
>
>
> (0, 3)
> (3, 3)
>
> There's an non-empty match followed by an empty match.
If you read my first post, it should be apparent that
that the empty string in the end of the string is
used twice -- thus an overlap.
Yingjie
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