Matthew Barnett added the comment:
Yes.
If it's not a valid repeat, then it's treated as a literal.
Perl does the same.
By the way, "\1" isn't a group reference; it's the same as "\x01". You should
be either doubling the backslashes ("\\1") or using a raw string literal
(r"\1").
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