passing multiple strings to string.find()

[Fredrik Lundh]

Francois Pinard wrote:

> Given the above,
>
>
>    build_regexp(['this', 'that', 'the-other'])
>
>
> yields the string 'th(?:is|at|e\\-other)', which one may choose to
> `re.compile' before use.

footnote: the SRE compiler looks for common prefixes, so "th(?:is|at|e\\-other)"
is no different from "this|that|the-other" on the engine level.

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