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Author jacques
Recipients akitada, amaury.forgeotdarc, collinwinter, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, giampaolo.rodola, gregory.p.smith, jacques, jaylogan, jhalcrow, jimjjewett, loewis, mark, moreati, mrabarnett, nneonneo, pitrou, r.david.murray, rsc, sjmachin, timehorse, vbr
Date 2010-11-02.04:52:19
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Message-id <1288673540.59.0.224029022463.issue2636@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Another, with backreferences:

import re, regex

text = "TEST, BEST; LEST ; Lest 123 Test, Best"
regexp = "(?i)(.{1,40}?),(.{1,40}?)(?:;)+(.{1,80}).{1,40}?\\3(\ |;)+(.{1,80}?)\\1"
print re.findall(regexp, text)
print regex.findall(regexp, text)

$ python test.py 
[('TEST', ' BEST', ' LEST', ' ', '123 ')]
[('T', ' BEST', ' ', ' ', 'Lest 123 ')]
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Date User Action Args
2010-11-02 04:52:20jacquessetrecipients: + jacques, loewis, georg.brandl, collinwinter, gregory.p.smith, jimjjewett, sjmachin, amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, nneonneo, giampaolo.rodola, rsc, timehorse, mark, vbr, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, jaylogan, akitada, moreati, r.david.murray, jhalcrow
2010-11-02 04:52:20jacquessetmessageid: <1288673540.59.0.224029022463.issue2636@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-11-02 04:52:19jacqueslinkissue2636 messages
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