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Author	Rim Chatti
Recipients	Rim Chatti, docs@python, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, rhettinger
Date	2020-07-09.19:08:45
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Message-id	<1594321725.1.0.285868168797.issue41259@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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re.findall(r"\w+ly", text) does not find all adverbs in a sentence, it finds words that contain ly (not ending with ly) : if text= 'andlying clearly', output: [andly, clearly] which is wrong! the right way to do this is re.findall(r'\b\w+ly\b',text) output= clearly!

re.findall(r"\w+ly", text) does not find all adverbs in a sentence, it finds words that contain ly (not ending with ly) :
if text= 'andlying clearly', output: [andly, clearly]
which is wrong! 
the right way to do this is re.findall(r'\b\w+ly\b',text)
output= clearly!

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Date	User	Action	Args
2020-07-09 19:08:45	Rim Chatti	set	recipients: + Rim Chatti, rhettinger, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, docs@python
2020-07-09 19:08:45	Rim Chatti	set	messageid: <1594321725.1.0.285868168797.issue41259@roundup.psfhosted.org>
2020-07-09 19:08:45	Rim Chatti	link	issue41259 messages
2020-07-09 19:08:45	Rim Chatti	create