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Incorrect parsing of Setext-style headings #1604

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@saf-dmitry

Python-Markdown wrongly recognizes following as H1 and H2 headings, respectively:

Some text
=-=-=-=-=

Some text
-=-=-=-=-

This is because the regex for detection of Setext-style headings handles runs of the = and - characters incorrectly. Below the improved version, which uses (?:[=]+|[-]+) group instead of [=-]+:

RE = re.compile(r'^.*?\n(?:[=]+|[-]+)[ ]*(\n|$)', re.MULTILINE)

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