On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 8:10 PM Henk-Jaap Wagenaar <
wagenaarhenkj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David (or somebody else) could you give us some, as real as possible,
> examples? This will strengthen the case for it!
>
> I am confident they exist and are pretty plentiful but I myself am coming
> up blank thinking about it for a few minutes and documenting them would be
> good for discussion.
>
I agree, I can't think of use cases for this.
Another way to solve this:
```
>>> re.sub(r"[123]{,4}$", "", "abc123123")
'abc12'
```
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