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  1. import re
  2. matches = []
  3. def repl(m):
  4. 	matches.append(m.group())
  5. 	return "{}\n".format(m.group())
  6.  
  7. s = 'I want to be able to replace many words, especially in this sentence, since it will help me solve by problem. That makes sense right?'
  8. pattern = re.compile(r'words[,]|sentence[,]|problem[.]')
  9. s = re.sub(pattern, repl, s)
  10.  
  11. print(s)
  12. print(matches)
Success #stdin #stdout 0.01s 23304KB
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I want to be able to replace many words,
 especially in this sentence,
 since it will help me solve by problem.
 That makes sense right?
['words,', 'sentence,', 'problem.']
https://ideone.com/UYnpIb
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Python (cpython 2.7.16)
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