... This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to . ... characters outside the US ASCII range. ... concatenate ordinary characters, so last matches the string 'last'. ... Matches any character except a newline. Matches the start of the string. ... Non-greedy versions of the previous three special characters. {m,n} Matches from m to n repetitions of the preceding RE. {m,n}? ... Modules . ... a match object, or None if no match was found. split (pattern, string, maxsplit =0 ) . ...