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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2025-01-02 12:11:21 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2025-01-02 12:11:21 (GMT)
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gh-124130: Fix a bug in matching regular expression \B in empty string (GH-127007)
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@@ -572,11 +572,8 @@ character ``'$'``.
Word boundaries are determined by the current locale
if the :py:const:`~re.LOCALE` flag is used.
- .. note::
-
- Note that ``\B`` does not match an empty string, which differs from
- RE implementations in other programming languages such as Perl.
- This behavior is kept for compatibility reasons.
+ .. versionchanged:: next
+ ``\B`` now matches empty input string.
.. index:: single: \d; in regular expressions