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From: Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com>
Subject: possible bug in re expression?
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 17:30:45 +0100
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Whilst translating some javascript code I find that this

A=re.compile('.{1,+3}').findall(p)

doesn't give any error, but doesn't manage to find the strings in p that I want 
len(A)==>0, the correct translation should have been

A=re.compile('.{1,3}').findall(p)

which works fine.

should

re.compile('.{1,+3}')

raise an error? It doesn't on python 2.7 or 3.3.
-- 
Robin Becker