Matching zero only once using RE

[Mike Meyer]

"GregM" <gregm at taming-tech.com> writes:
> I've looked at a lot of pages on the net and still can't seem to nail
> this. Would someone more knowledgeable in regular expressions please
> provide some help to point out what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I am trying to see if a web page contains the exact text:
> You have found 0 matches

Why in the gods names are you using an re for this? Just use in:

>>> pretext1 = 'This is some text with You have found 0 matches in it'
>>> pretext2 = 'This text should not match'
>>> 'You have found 0 matches' in pretext1
True
>>> 'You have found 0 matches' in pretext2
False
>>> 

I think it's time to form a Committee for the Prevention of Regular
Expression Abuse.

    <mike
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