Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment:
IMHO the documentation is fine as is. Using pos in combination with
lookarounds that match on the beginning/end of the slice seems a rather
uncommon corner case, and I don't think it's worth documenting it. Even if it
was documented, as
Matthew Barnett pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com added the comment:
The documentation says of the 'pos' parameter This is not completely
equivalent to slicing the string and of the 'endpos' parameter it will be as
if the string is endpos characters long.
In other words, it starts searching at 'pos'
Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierr...@gmail.com added the comment:
If it's intended behaviour, then I'd request that the documentation
specifically mention lookbehind assertions the way it does with ^.
Saying it's slightly different doesn't make clear the ways in which it is
different, and that's
New submission from Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierr...@gmail.com:
compiled regex objects' match method offers an optional pos parameter
described to be roughly equivalent to slicing except for how it treats the ^
operation. See http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.RegexObject.search
However,
