Geoffrey Odhner added the comment:
I'm puzzled by your inability to reproduce my result, however I have found an
error in what I reported to you. On the XP system the version I'm using is NOT
3.4.3, but 3.4.0 (3.4.0:04ff714765c13, Mar 16 2014, 19:24:06) [MSC v1600 32 bit
(Intel)], running
Geoffrey Odhner added the comment:
I'm quite sure it's the same regular expression with the same code. It was a
puzzling bug, and I thought it might take more to track it down than it did. I
tried changing the file encoding on both the code and the data, and found that
the problem didn't
New submission from Geoffrey Odhner:
I have found a bug in python’s re.fullmatch() function when it’s running on
Windows XP. On Mac OS X or Windows 7 the bug doesn’t occur. When I use
fullmatch() with a regular expression that ends with ‘$’ it fails to match the
string (on XP
