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Re: re module: Nothing to repeat, but no sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat ?

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From	Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date	2012-02-14 08:33 -0500
Subject	Re: re module: Nothing to repeat, but no sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat ?
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> $ is a meta character for regular expressions. Use '\$*', which does
> compile.

I mean for it to be a meta-character.

I'm wondering why it's OK for to repeat a zero-width match if it is a
zero-width assertion.

-- Devin

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re module: Nothing to repeat, but no sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat ? Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 23:38 -0500
  Re: re module: Nothing to repeat, but no sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat ? Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-14 05:20 -0800
    Re: re module: Nothing to repeat, but no sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat ? Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-02-14 08:33 -0500

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