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| Date | Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:05:51 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: re module: Nothing to repeat, but no sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat ? |
| From | Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> |
| To | Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> |
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2012/2/14 Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>:
> 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
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Hi,
I don't know the reason for the observed differences either (I can
think of some optimisation issues etc.), but just wanted to mention
some other similar patterns to your lookahaed:
It seems, that groups (capturing or not capturing) also work ok:
>>> re.findall("($)*", "abc")
['', '', '', '']
>>> re.findall("(?:$)*", "abc")
['', '', '', '']
However, is there any realistic usecase for repeated zero-width anchors?
regards,
vbr
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Re: re module: Nothing to repeat, but no sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat ? Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-02-14 16:05 +0100
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