re.sub(“.*”, “, “(replacement)”, “text”) doubles replacement on Python 3.7

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This is not a bug, but a bug fix in Python 3.7 from the commit fbb490fd2f38bd817d99c20c05121ad0168a38ee.

In regex, a non-zero-width match moves the pointer position to the end of the match, so that the next assertion, zero-width or not, can continue to match from the position following the match. So in your example, after .* greedily matches and consumes the entire string, the fact that the pointer is then moved to the end of the string still actually leaves “room” for a zero-width match at that position, as can be evident from the following code, which behaves the same in Python 2.7, 3.6 and 3.7:

>>> re.findall(".*", 'sample text')
['sample text', '']

So the bug fix, which is about replacement of a zero-width match right after a non-zero-width match, now correctly replaces both matches with the replacement text.

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