Suppose I have a long 'mystring' and I have already removed all of its line feeds. startpattern some unneeded data endpattern Juicy Data Block 1 startpattern more unneeded data endpattern Juicy Data Block 2 I want to use re.sub to grab both Juicy Data Blocks re.sub(r'startpattern.+endpattern','',mystring) but of course the problem is the greedy lookahead will remove the first section of data I need, only leaving the Juicy Data Block 2 section. Adding a count=1 argument to the re.sub doesn't solve the greedy lookahead. How to best go about capturing all the data I need? Should I be splitting instead of the startpattern.+endpattern bookends and operating on sections or can re.sub do this? Continue reading...
