Gustavo Niemeyer 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								d969775d9c 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Fixed \versionadded for the (?(id/name)yes|no) expression support.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-10-18 15:28:22 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Gustavo Niemeyer 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								ad3fc44ccb 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Implemented non-recursive SRE matching.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-10-17 22:13:16 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Raymond Hettinger 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								5bcc933211 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								SF bug  #803842 :  Wrong description of regexp concatenation  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-09-10 18:45:12 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Raymond Hettinger 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								bed92ee2b2 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								SF patch  #800899 :  Making "|" directive from REs a bit clearer.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-09-10 03:54:50 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Raymond Hettinger 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								dfa7bd97ff 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								SF  #801306 :  Bad RE in scanf example  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-09-09 01:30:13 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Raymond Hettinger 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								2f3e5483a3 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								SF bug #732120:An extended definition of "non-overlapping" would save time.  
							
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							Clarified the meaning of non-overlapping in patterns with zero length
matches. 
							
						 
						
							2003-08-31 05:29:02 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Raymond Hettinger 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								f17d65da3a 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								SF patch#786531 'the the' typo.  Contributed by George Yoshida  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-08-12 00:01:16 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								788617f8f0 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Remove \versionchanged; the text was too complex for the GNU info  
							
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							conversion to support.  Keep the content as normal content, with a
note that this applies starting in Python 2.3. 
							
						 
						
							2003-07-16 16:19:08 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Andrew M. Kuchling 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								c85bf58276 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								[Bug  #732124 ] Clarify .pos, .endpos by saying 'method' instead of 'function'  
							
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							Also, put match() description before search(); search() refers to match() 
							
						 
						
							2003-05-13 14:40:24 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Martin v. Löwis 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								ec31047c0c 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Use \versionchanged, not \versionadded.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-05-03 10:59:13 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Martin v. Löwis 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								7829e5661c 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Patch  #731514 : Update recursion documentation to mention simple recursion.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-05-03 10:57:53 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Gustavo Niemeyer 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								cf146d31e7 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								- Included examples documenting how the lastindex member of  
							
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							match objects work. 
							
						 
						
							2003-04-20 01:48:59 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Andrew M. Kuchling 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								69700ef573 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Weaken recommendation of Friedl book; fix reference  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-03-04 14:17:05 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Andrew M. Kuchling 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								02a0b3b81a 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								[bug  #692016 ] update description of {m,n} modifier; you can omit the lower bound  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-03-04 14:12:24 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Andrew M. Kuchling 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								85f3227a74 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								[bug  #696771 ] Remove misleading parenthetical aside  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2003-03-04 14:07:51 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								7af24bd237 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Fix example regular expressions that simulate scanf() constructs.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2002-12-03 18:49:17 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								a5a173efbf 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Fix broken markup.  
							
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							Closes SF bug #637807 . 
							
						 
						
							2002-11-13 17:48:15 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								3d03968c75 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Clarified meaning of \w and \W with respect to the UNICODE and LOCALE flags.  
							
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							Closes SF bug #635595 . 
							
						 
						
							2002-11-12 23:12:54 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Andrew M. Kuchling 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								3adefccdcb 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Use personal e-mail address  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2002-10-30 21:08:34 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fredrik Lundh 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								e7c38d48ff 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								fixed the mail address in the documentation, too...  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2002-10-19 20:22:56 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Skip Montanaro 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								2c0d3224fc 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								tightened up the definition of \b and \B some more based upon discussion  
							
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							after the last checkin. 
							
						 
						
							2002-09-07 18:48:14 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Skip Montanaro 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								2c519981fb 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								update docs to reflect that \b considers underscore to be part of a word.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2002-09-06 14:38:23 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								ffefb1df56 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Clarify the endpos argument to the rx.match() method.  
							
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							Closes SF bug #597177 . 
							
						 
						
							2002-08-20 13:57:47 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								5b11bdd0ed 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								SF patch  #581414 : info reader bug  
							
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							The "Matching vs. Searching" Info node is unreachable from the Info
program (but is fine in Emacs's Info mode). This patch seems to fix
it.  This is the only occurrence where the info reader fails, so
probably it could be addressed in the python docs as a workaround.
Forwarded the report to the info maintainer. 
							
						 
						
							2002-07-30 17:51:20 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								53540ab071 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Correct the RE equivalent of scanf()'s %x and %X patterns.  
							
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							Closes SF bug #572169 . 
							
						 
						
							2002-06-22 01:07:37 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Martin v. Löwis 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								81bdc93d2f 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Explain octal escapes.  Fixes   #542226 .  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2002-04-11 12:24:12 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Andrew M. Kuchling 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								2854c478be 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Remove mention of 'pre' module  
							
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							(2.2 bugfix candidate?) 
							
						 
						
							2002-04-10 21:28:31 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								57f8e06e4f 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Document the finditer() function and method.  
							
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							This closes SF bug #520904 .
Explain that many of the escapes supported by string literals are also
supported by the RE compiler, and list which ones.
This closes SF bug #529923 . 
							
						 
						
							2002-03-25 20:22:59 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								a8b663806b 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Remove extra verb; reported by Detlef Lannert.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2002-03-18 16:45:01 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								8e0c82a35f 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Fix stupid typo in example.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2002-03-16 14:01:12 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								f275803fe9 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Clarify the descriptions of the positive and negative lookbehind assertions.  
							
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							Added examples of positive lookbehind assertions.
This closes SF bug #529708 . 
							
						 
						
							2002-03-16 05:58:12 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								9479c958c5 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Remove extra indenatation from sample interpreter session.  
							
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							Remove whitespace from the middle of an inline RE example; it was OK for
the typeset formats, but LaTeX2HTML is more touchy about this. 
							
						 
						
							2002-03-05 04:02:39 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Skip Montanaro 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								a8e1d81bdc 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								add simple example of avoiding backtracking  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2002-03-04 23:08:28 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								b6b2aa6c75 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Fix error in explanation of the interaction between $ and MULTILINE mode.  
							
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							Reported by Steve Alexander. 
							
						 
						
							2002-02-25 18:56:45 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								7bc6f7ac7b 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Consistently use \textasciicircum to produce a ^ character.  
							
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							LaTeX really falls flat on this one! 
							
						 
						
							2002-02-14 15:19:30 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								ed0a71911c 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Neil Schemenauer suggested a small improvement to one of the example REs.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2001-11-29 20:23:14 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								1cec7fab1d 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								New section of regular expression examples contributed by Skip Montanaro,  
							
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							with some extensions and changes from me.
This closes SF patch #472825 . 
							
						 
						
							2001-11-29 08:45:22 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Andrew M. Kuchling 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								1f774b062e 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Update obsolete e-mail address, and remove myself as a module author  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2001-11-05 21:34:36 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Tim Peters 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								7533587d43 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Improved error msg when a symbolic group name is redefined.  Added docs  
							
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							and NEWS.  Bugfix candidate?  That's a dilemma for Anthony <wink>:  /F
did fix a longstanding bug here, but the fix can cause code to raise an
exception that previously worked by accident. 
							
						 
						
							2001-11-03 19:35:43 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								0aa811c527 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Use the \note and \warning macros where appropriate.  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2001-10-20 04:24:09 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Tim Peters 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								9835206268 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								A regexp example was rendered as  
							
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							foo\d
when it was clearly intended to render as
    foo$
Fred, is this a right way to fix it?  If not, the earlier place in the
same paragraph that does render as
    foo$
is also wrong. 
							
						 
						
							2001-10-05 20:06:47 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Eric S. Raymond 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								46ccd1dae5 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Plant a mention in the description of backreferences of the fact that  
							
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							while \0 doesn't do what one might expect, \g<0> does. 
							
						 
						
							2001-08-28 12:50:03 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								51629c245a 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Add a caveat about boundary conditions and RE concatenation, so that the  
							
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							documents do not make an overly-strong assertion about the properties of
RE concatenation.
Add an example of RE{m,} syntax and what it will and will not match. 
							
						 
						
							2001-08-02 20:52:00 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								e74f8de385 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Added an example of a string value for the replacement parameter to  
							
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							re.sub().
This closes SF bug #446136 .
Fixed description of RE modifiers so that RE{#} and RE{#,} are more
clearly described and disambiguated (plain RE{#} had not been described
at all).  Reported by Jeremy Craven via email. 
							
						 
						
							2001-08-01 16:56:51 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								c547b46c06 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,  
							
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							and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.
This closes SF bug #441600 . 
							
						 
						
							2001-07-23 21:14:59 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								f4bdb57e15 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Fix return value for m.group() for groups not in the part of the RE that  
							
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							matched; reported by Paul Moore.
Wrapped several long lines. 
							
						 
						
							2001-07-12 14:13:43 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								907e76b620 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make  
							
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							translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more
difficult for non-native speakers. 
							
						 
						
							2001-07-06 20:30:11 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								895aa9da4c 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Suggestion from Keith Briggs:  refer to RE objects consistently instead of  
							
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							introducing a new term ("regex") without defining it. 
							
						 
						
							2001-04-18 17:26:20 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Fred Drake 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								e20bd19f86 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Convert several \seetext references to \seerfc and \seetitle versions.  
							
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							These format somewhat better and include more semantic information in the
source. 
							
						 
						
							2001-04-12 16:47:17 +00:00 
							
								 
							
							
								 
							
						 
					 
				
					
						
							
								
								
									Andrew M. Kuchling 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
							
							
								
							
							
								75afc0b914 
								
							 
						 
						
							
							
								
								Document the .lastindex and .lastgroup attributes of MatchObject  
							
							
							
						 
						
							2000-10-18 23:08:13 +00:00