[Tutor] regular expression wildcard search

[Hs Hs]

Dear group:

I have 50 thousand lists. My aim is to search a pattern in the alphabetical strings (these are protein sequence strings).


MMSASRLAGTLIPAMAFLSCVRPESWEPC VEVVP NITYQCMELNFYKIPDNLPFSTKNLDLSFNPLRHLGSYSFFSFPELQVLDLSRCEIQTIED

my aim is to find the list of string that has V*VVP. 

myseq = 'MMSASRLAGTLIPAMAFLSCVRPESWEPC VEVVP NITYQCMELNFYKIPDNLPFSTKNLDLSFNPLRHLGSYSFFSFPELQVLDLSRCEIQTIED'

if re.search('V*VVP',myseq):
print myseq 

the problem with this is, I am also finding junk with just VVP or VP etc. 

How can I strictly search for V*VVP only. 

Thanks for help. 

Hs
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