"gburde...@gmail.com" <gburde...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I do this: > > import re > a=re.search(r'hello.*?money', 'hello how are you hello funny money') > > I would expect a.group(0) to be "hello funny money", since .*? is a > non-greedy match. But instead, I get the whole sentence, "hello how > are you hello funny money". > > Is this expected behavior? How can I specify the correct regexp so > that I get "hello funny money" ? > > Another option nobody has yet suggested:
>>> re.match(r'.*(hello.*?money)', 'hello how are you hello funny >>> money').group(1) 'hello funny money' The initial .* will effectively make the search start at the end and work backwards so it finds the last 'hello' that is followed by 'money' instead of the first. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
