regex that is equivalent to perl's syntax

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:38:57 -0800, Lee Sander wrote:

> does python's re library have a similar capability of the perls
> regular expression to
> search for pattern that appears a variable number of times within the
> lower and upper bounds given? For example, what is the python's
> equivalent to the following perl's search string?
> m/^\S{1,8}\.\S{0,3}/

It is ``re.match(r'\S{1,8}\.\S{0,3}', string)``.  There's something called
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Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch