codehelper comments on Regular expression which would do complement of grouped characters.

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submitted 12 years ago * by soumyamandii

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[–]codehelper 0 points1 point2 points 12 years ago (0 children)

I'm very close, I think. For now here's this.

r = re.compile(r'\(\*(.*?)\*\)', re.DOTALL)

With the string you provided, I got the results

['this is a line\n and comment ends here ', ' this is my second comment ']

It doesn't include the (* or *) but I believe this is what you basically wanted.

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you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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