help in converting perl re to python re

[Sybren Stuvel]

Joel Hedlund enlightened us with:
> regexp = re.compile(r"<(tag1)>(.*)</\1>")

I'd go for

regexp = re.compile(r"<(tag1)>(.*?)</\1>")

Otherwise this:

line = "<tag1>sometext</tag1><tag1>othertext</tag1>"
match = regexp.search(line) 

will result in 'sometext</tag1><tag1>othertext'

Sybren
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