How can I exclude a word by using re?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

could ildg a écrit :
> Thank you.
> But what should I do if there are more than one hello and I only want
> to extract what's before the first "hello". 

Read The Fine Manual ?-)


> For example, the raw
> string is "hi, how are you? hello I'm fine, thank you hello. that's it
> hello", I want to extract all the stuff before the first hello?

re.findall(r'^(.*)hello', your_string_full_of_hellos)