Hopefully simple regular expression question

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On 14 Jun 2005 04:01:58 -0700, rumours say that "peterbe at gmail.com"
<peterbe at gmail.com> might have written:

>I want to match a word against a string such that 'peter' is found in
>"peter bengtsson" or " hey peter," or but in "thepeter bengtsson" or
>"hey peterbe," because the word has to stand on its own. The following
>code works for a single word:

[snip]

use \b before and after the word you search, for example:

rePeter= re.compile("\bpeter\b", re.I)

In the documentation for the re module, Subsection 4.2.1 is Regular
Expression Syntax; it'll help a lot if you read it.

Cheers.
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