>> Also, what made the expression greedy?
>
> They usually are, by default. It means that when there
> are more than one ways to match the pattern, choose the
> one that matches the most text. Often there are flags
> available to change that behavior. I'm not sure off hand
> how to do it with the re module.
In python's RE module, they're like Perl:
Greedy: "<.*>"
Nongreedy: "<.*?>"
By appending a question-mark onto the operator, one makes it a
non-greedy repeat. It also applies to the plus ("one or more")
and the questionmark ("zero or one")
-tkc
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