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Trying to get to grips with regular expressions in Python, I’m trying to output some HTML highlighted in part of a URL. My input is
I have a file that includes a bunch of strings like “size=XXX;”. I am trying Python’s re module for the first time and am a bit mystified by the following behavior: if I use a pipe for ‘or’ in a regular expression, I only see that bit of the match returned. E.g.:
On Python 3.7 (tested on Windows 64 bits), the replacement of a string using the RegEx .* gives the input string repeated twice!