vertigo> i noticed that while matching regexp python tries to match as wide 
as it's  
    vertigo> possible,
    vertigo> for example:
    vertigo> re.sub("<!--.*-->","",htmldata)
    vertigo> would cut out everything before first "<!--" and last "-->" in the 
 
    vertigo> document.
    vertigo> Can i force re to math as narrow as possible ?

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