Regex teaser

[Smylers]

Matt Lawrence writes:

> It looks like Python has decided that a zero-width match cannot
> immediately follow a non-zero-width match.

Thanks.

That sounds like a special-case exception to me, increasing the
complexity of understanding how patterns match.

But in practice it might be less surprising and more useful than Perl's
behaviour.

Smylers
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