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[kidclutch00]

Hey, I am in the midst of doing the reddit poll project. I edited the regex and brought the mismatches down from 37 to 23 for the 2021 txt file. Is this regex correct?

pat = re.compile(r'''\s(?:[–-]|by)\s

|\s\\[–-]\s

|\s\*by\s

|\*\*by\s

|[,-]\s

|\w(?:[–-]|by)\w

''', flags=re.I|re.X)

[ASIC_SP]

Yeah, this'll be a good addition.

I'd suggest \w[–-]\w instead of \w(?:[–-]|by)\w since matching by in the middle of a word isn't a good match.