Newbie backreference question

[paulm]

George Sakkis <gsakkis at rutgers.edu> wrote:
> 
> Did you have a look at my other reply ? It's still the same, just
> change the regexp:
> 
> import re
> a = 'test string two'
> b = re.match(r'test \w{2}(.+)', a, re.DOTALL).group(1)
> print b
> 
> By the way, if you want to catch any single character (including new
> lines), '.' with re.DOTALL flag is more clear than [\W\w].
> 
> George
> 

	Of course, this is the answer I need. I've been futzing
around with \1 and such without much luck. I'm still thinking a
bit too perlishly. :)

Thanks again, all!