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  1. import re
  2. dummyText1 = "bill: hello \nted: hello \nto you \nbill: goodbye \nted: goodbye \nto you"
  3. #speakers = ['bill', 'ted']
  4. #p = fr'^({"|".join(speakers)}):(.*(?:\n(?!(?:{"|".join(speakers)})).*)*)'
  5. p = r'^((?:[^\W\d_]|[^\S\r\n])+):(.*(?:\n(?!(?:[^\W\d_]|[^\S\r\n])+:).*)*)'
  6. print( [[x.strip(),y.replace('\n','').strip()] for x,y in re.findall(p, dummyText1, re.M)])
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 9488KB
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stdin 
Standard input is empty
stdout 
[['bill', 'hello'], ['ted', 'hello to you'], ['bill', 'goodbye'], ['ted', 'goodbye to you']]
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language:
Python 3 (python  3.12)
created:
5 years ago
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