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  1. import re
  2. import re
  3. p = re.compile(r'([a-z]+)((?:,\s*[a-z]+)*)\s+(and|or)\s+([a-z]+)')
  4. test_str = "white and blue ... white, and blue ... dark, green, gray and silver"
  5.  
  6. print([x.group(0) for x in re.finditer(p, test_str)])
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 8736KB
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['white and blue', 'dark, green, gray and silver']
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Python 3 (python  3.12)
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