Question about metacharacter '*'

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2014-07-06 04:51 -0700
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Subject	Question about metacharacter '*'
From	rxjwg98@gmail.com

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Hi,

I just begin to learn Python. I do not see the usefulness of '*' in its
description below:




The first metacharacter for repeating things that we'll look at is *. * doesn't
match the literal character *; instead, it specifies that the previous character
can be matched zero or more times, instead of exactly once.

For example, ca*t will match ct (0 a characters), cat (1 a), caaat (3 a
characters), and so forth. 



It has to be used with other search constraints?


Thanks,

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Question about metacharacter '*' rxjwg98@gmail.com - 2014-07-06 04:51 -0700
  Re: Question about metacharacter '*' Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-07-06 05:09 -0700
    Re: Question about metacharacter '*' rxjwg98@gmail.com - 2014-07-07 11:51 -0700
      Re: Question about metacharacter '*' Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-07-07 13:27 -0700
      Re: Question about metacharacter '*' Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-07-07 22:50 +0100
  Re: Question about metacharacter '*' MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-07-06 16:32 +0100
  Re: Question about metacharacter '*' Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-07-06 08:50 -0700
    Re: Question about metacharacter '*' Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2014-07-06 09:24 -0700
      Re: Question about metacharacter '*' Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2014-07-06 09:32 -0700
      Re: Question about metacharacter '*' Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-07-06 12:47 -0400
        Re: Question about metacharacter '*' Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2014-07-06 10:38 -0700
          Re: Question about metacharacter '*' Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2014-07-06 10:58 -0700

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