Regular expressions in Python

[Fredrik Lundh]

john wrote:
> 1)  In Perl, I can do something like
> 
>     if (/START(.+?)END/) {
>       use $1 here (value caught in (.+?))
>     }
> 
>     what is the equivalent of Perl's $1, $2, ... in Python.

    m = re.search("START(.+?)END", string)
    if m:
        print m.group(1)

for more info, see "match objects" section in the library
reference.

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