New submission from Isis Binder:
I was working on some SPOJ exercises when the regex module hit me with an error
related to '*' being used inside the character set operator.
I looked in the module docs but it says: Special characters lose their special
meaning inside sets. For example, [(+*)] will match any of the literal
characters '(', '+', '*', or ')'.
Traceback attached.
Offending code (inside IDLE):
import re
a = '73479*5152'
re.match(r'(\d+)([+-*])(\d+)', a).groups()
NOTE: if I write r'(\d+)([*])(\d+)', r'(\d+)([*+-])(\d+)' or
r'(\d+)([+*-])(\d+)' it works. Shouldn't it simply work as described in the
docs or should the docs be updated with an entry about proper character
ordering in the character class?
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components: Regular Expressions
files: traceback.txt
messages: 201351
nosy: Isis.Binder, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Regex with set of characters and groups raises error
type: crash
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32372/traceback.txt
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