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  1. import re
  2. text = "there are many people in the world having colorectal cancer (crc) who also have the depression syndrome (ds)"
  3. acrolen=5
  4. rt=[]
  5. acronym_list = ["(crc)", "(ds)"]
  6. for acro in acronym_list:
  7. 	p = r'(?:\w+\W+){1,%d}%s'  %(acrolen, re.escape(acro))
  8. 	find_words= re.findall(p, text, re.I)
  9. 	for word in find_words:
  10. 		rt.append(word)
  11. print rt
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['the world having colorectal cancer (crc)', 'also have the depression syndrome (ds)']
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Python (cpython 2.7.16)
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7 years ago
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