#!/usr/bin/env python # encoding: utf-8 # # Copyright (c) 2010 Doug Hellmann. All rights reserved. # """Regular expression grouping """ #end_pymotw_header from re_test_patterns import test_patterns test_patterns('abbaaabbbbaaaaa', [ 'a(ab)', # 'a' followed by literal 'ab' 'a(a*b*)', # 'a' followed by 0-n 'a' and 0-n 'b' 'a(ab)*', # 'a' followed by 0-n 'ab' 'a(ab)+', # 'a' followed by 1-n 'ab' ])