[MERGE] Rule-based preferences (EOL part 1 of 3)

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Stefan Monnier wrote:
|> Do we know that regexes always match the first item that can match?
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| POSIX says so (provided both matches have the same length, that is).
| Not sure if Python intends to follow POSIX here.
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|         Stefan

I would guess so. And you mean matched length, right? So *.foo versus
afilename.* would be fine.

John
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