re question

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <c75g0za3g94.fsf at pc142.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
Tim Evans <tre17 at student.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>To match everything between two occurances of %%%, including embedded
>%, this expression will work:
>
>get = re.compile(r'%%%(.*?)%%%')
>
>The important part is the *?, which matches the smallest possible
>string rather than the largest.

This fails on '%'*7.
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