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Author Seth.Troisi
Recipients Seth.Troisi, docs@python, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray
Date 2011-05-24.02:27:05
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Message-id <1306204025.92.0.1546388276.issue12162@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Given David Murray's input I think the example would be best done as 

>>> re.search(r'(\w+) \1', "can you do the can can?") # Matches the duplicate can
<_sre.SRE_Match object at ...>


I want to stress that the documentation is not wrong but confusing, especially for someone unfamiliar with regression expressions.
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Date User Action Args
2011-05-24 02:27:05Seth.Troisisetrecipients: + Seth.Troisi, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, docs@python
2011-05-24 02:27:05Seth.Troisisetmessageid: <1306204025.92.0.1546388276.issue12162@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-05-24 02:27:05Seth.Troisilinkissue12162 messages
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