How to write this repeat matching?

[Anssi Saari]

rxjwg98 at gmail.com writes:

> Because I am new to Python, I may not describe the question clearly. Could you
> read the original problem on web:
>
> https://docs.python.org/2/howto/regex.html
>
> It says that it gets 'abcb'. Could you explain it to me? Thanks again

Actually, it tries to explain how * works in the regular expression
engine. Do you feel that's a crucial thing for a beginner to understand
about Python? Hopefully your answer is no and you can move on.