import re

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txt = "hello planet"

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#Search for a sequence that starts with "he", followed by 0 or 1  (any) character, and an "o":

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x = re.findall("he.?o", txt)

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print(x)

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#This time we got no match, because there were not zero, not one, but two characters between "he" and the "o"

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