On 6 Jul 2005 01:01:34 -0700, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With * being a greedy operator, your post's subject line matches,
> "firetrucking"
Nope:
>>> print re.match('f*cking', 'firetrucking')
None
The OP was clearly showing his lack of regex nouce here. Clearly he
wanted 'f.*cking':
>>> print re.match('f.*cking', 'firetrucking')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x01196058>
;-)
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