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Author Alcolo Alcolo
Recipients Alcolo Alcolo, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
Date 2015-09-10.12:19:56
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Message-id <1441887596.73.0.766811958538.issue25054@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Why
re.findall('^|a', 'a') != ['', 'a'] ?

We have:
re.findall('^|a', ' a') == ['', 'a']
and
re.findall('$|a', ' a') == ['a', '']

Capturing '^' take the 1st character. It's look like a bug ...
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2015-09-10 12:19:56Alcolo Alcolosetrecipients: + Alcolo Alcolo, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
2015-09-10 12:19:56Alcolo Alcolosetmessageid: <1441887596.73.0.766811958538.issue25054@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2015-09-10 12:19:56Alcolo Alcololinkissue25054 messages
2015-09-10 12:19:56Alcolo Alcolocreate