So I have this:
z='===hello
there===,
how are ===you===?'
And I want to be:
z='<b>hello
there<\b>,
how are <b>you<\b>?'
I tried doing this:
z = re.sub(r"\={3}([^\$]+)\={3}", r"<b> \\1 </b>", z, re.M)
And it works sort of but I got this instead:
z='<b>hello
there===,
how are ===you<\b>?'
I'm still new to this but I believe it's the ^ and $ that makes it match the beginning and the end of the string. So how do I change it so it matches the ones in the middle?
re.sub(r"\={3}([^\$]+?)\={3}", r"<b> \\1 </b>", z, re.M)
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*?, +?, ?? The '*', '+', and '?' qualifiers are all greedy; they match as much text as possible. Sometimes this behaviour isn’t desired; if the RE <.*> is matched against '<H1>title</H1>', it will match the entire string, and not just '<H1>'. Adding '?' after the qualifier makes it perform the match in non-greedy or minimal fashion; as few characters as possible will be matched. Using .*? in the previous expression will match only '<H1>'.
<\b> not the last <\b>)