How can I exclude a word by using re?

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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". 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?

On 14 Aug 2005 08:02:16 -0700, Christoph Rackwitz
<christoph.rackwitz at gmail.com> wrote:
> re.findall('(.*)hello|(.*)', 'hi, how are you. hello')
> re.findall('(.*)hello|(.*)', 'hi, how are you. ello')
> take a look at the outputs of these.
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