#!/usr/bin/env python
     # encoding: utf-8
     #
     # Copyright (c) 2010 Doug Hellmann.  All rights reserved.
     #
     """Repetition of patterns
     """
     #end_pymotw_header
     
     from re_test_patterns import test_patterns
     
     test_patterns('This is some text -- with punctuation.',
                   [ '[a-z]+',      # sequences of lower case letters
                     '[A-Z]+',      # sequences of upper case letters
                     '[a-zA-Z]+',   # sequences of lower or upper case letters
                     '[A-Z][a-z]+', # one upper case letter followed by lower case letters
                     ])