I'm trying to match (.)\1+ in google. This works just fine on http://regexr.com/, but when I try this code in Python, r.match(s) returns None.
import re
s = 'google'
r = re.compile(r'(.)\1+')
print(r.match(s))
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Andrew Pampuch
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Use `print(r.search(s))` instead – anubhava Mar 08 '16 at 07:12
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[search vs match](https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#search-vs-match) in docs – Amadan Mar 08 '16 at 07:15