Re: Some more odd behaviour from the Regexp library

Thanks for all your replies. I guess I've always used .*? as sort of an idiom for a non-greedy match, but I guess it only works if I specify the end point (which I didn't in the above case). e.g. re.search(r'exit: (.*?)$', a) Thanks for pointing that out! David -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Some more odd behaviour from the Regexp library

Can anyone explain why it won't give me my captured group? In [1]: a = 'exit: gkdfjgfjdfsgdjglkghdfgkd' In [2]: import re In [3]: b = re.search(r'exit: (.*?)', a) In [4]: b.group(0) Out[4]: 'exit: ' In [5]: b.group(1) Out[5]: '' In [6]: b.group(2) IndexError: no such group -- http://mail.pytho

Odd behaviour of regexp module

Hello It seems the grouping feature isn't behaving correctly. In [1]: a = 'dfsf.oct.ocfe' In [2]: b = re.match(r'^(.*?)\.', a); b.group() 'dfsf.' The expected result is 'dfsf'. Why did the regexp grab that period at the end? David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list