Message 99237 - Python tracker
The re module is addressed in issue #2636. BTW, my regex module behaves like Ruby: >>> regex.sub(r"((x|y)*)*", "(\\1, \\2)", "xyyzy", count=1) '(, y)zy' >>> regex.sub(r"((x|y+)*)*", "(\\1, \\2)", "xyyzy", count=1) '(, yy)zy'