According to the documentation on re.sub(), it replaces the leftmost
matching pattern.
However, I want to replace the *longest* matching pattern, which is
not necessarily the leftmost match. Any suggestions?
I'm working with IPv6 CIDR strings, and I want to replace the longest
match of "(0000:|0000$)+" with ":". But when I use re.sub() it replaces
the leftmost match, even if there is a longer match later in the string.
I'm also looking for a regexp that will remove leading zeroes in each
four-digit group, but will leave a single zero if the group was all
zeroes.
Thanks!
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