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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:38:03 -0500
Subject: re module: Nothing to repeat, but no sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat ?
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Hey Pythonistas,

Consider the regular expression "$*". Compilation fails with the
exception, "sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat".

Consider the regular expression "(?=$)*". As far as I know it is
equivalent. It does not fail to compile.

Why the inconsistency? What's going on here?

-- Devin