On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:39 am, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg asked: > > Hmm, could you explain where ".*?" is useful ? > > Gary Herron responded: > > Yes, easily. It's the non-greedy version of "match all". The manual > > page for the re module has this nice example: > > I think the problem is that .*? is too similar to (.*)? -- especially > for people who aren't familiar with the non-greedy versions of the > operators. This certainly stumped me as well. > > I'm not sure what can be done about that, though. It stumped my for a while also, even though I've used them on occasion. In general I find regular expressions mostly unreadable. Solutions for that problem would occupy a (probably long and hopefully different) thread.
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