[Solved] regex match for the exact match not all the match in python

Question

Your string is in fact html – you should use html parser instead. I suggest the excellent lxml.html parser.

To answer your question, regexes are greedy by default, that means your .+ part will grab as many chars as it can to satisfy the condition. So you will get the first /subtitles/ and the last -english\-yify- and everything in between.

Accepted Answer

Your string is in fact html – you should use html parser instead. I suggest the excellent lxml.html parser.

To answer your question, regexes are greedy by default, that means your .+ part will grab as many chars as it can to satisfy the condition. So you will get the first /subtitles/ and the last -english\-yify- and everything in between.