Python Tip #92 (of 365):

Don't overuse regular expressions

If a containment check of a common string method will do, don't use a regular expression.

Instead of this:
if re‍.search(r"^http://", string):

Do this:
if string.startswith("http://"):

Instead of this:
if re‍.search(r"#", string):

Do this:
if "#" in string:

And instead of this:
parts = re.findall(r"\S+", string)

Do this:
parts = string.split()

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