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On 11/02/2015 07:42 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2015-11-02 20:09, Seymore4Head wrote:
>> How do I make a regular expression that returns true if the end of
>> the line is an asterisk
> 
> Why use a regular expression?
> 
>   if line[-1] == '*':
>     yep(line)
>   else:
>     nope(line)

Indeed, sometimes Jamie Zawinski's is often quite appropriate:

    Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
regular expressions." Now they have two problems.