Re: url patterns question

 

What did you base this on? Certainly not the python docs or behavior of any pcre based library.

Regular expressions are capitalist: greedy by default.

The qualifiers *? are there especially to make a match non-greedy.

 

Quick test:

pcregrep -o '^.*:' /etc/passwd

 

versus:

 

pcregrep -o '^.*?:' /etc/passwd

 

> The .* modifier means "match any character (.) zero or more times

> (*)". Since blank/ matches the .* zero times, it is a match for your

> expression.

Yeah...you're right. This is why I should stop responding on my phone when I'm tired. No idea why I was thinking that non-greedy was default.

In [4]: bool(re.match(r'^blank/.*$', 'blank/abc'))

Out[4]: True

In [5]: bool(re.match(r'^blank/.*$', 'blank/'))

Out[5]: True

Thank you for catching that. Not sure what was going through my head. 

 

 

And his problem is that it does *not* match. Not that it does.

 

And for that I think my statement still stands that Django is stripping the last portion of the URL as a GET argument. I'm betting that requests.GET.get('abc') will return '12/' per the last example from the OP. 

-James

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