On Sep 6, 9:46 pm, "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" ?
heres one way, but it depends greatly on the actual pattern you seek... re.search(r'hello \w+ money', 'hello how are you hello funny money').group() your regex matches the whole string because it means ("hello" followed by any number of *anythings* up to "money") you see? wisdom = get_enlightend(http://jjsenlightenments.blogspot.com/) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list