python 3 regex string matching ignore whitespace and string.punctuation
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I am new to regex and would like to know how to pattern match two strings. The use case would be something like finding a certain phrase in some text. I'm using python 3.7 if that makes a difference. phrase = "some phrase" #the phrase I'm searching for Possible matches: text = "some#@$#phrase" ^^^^ #non-alphanumeric can be treated like a single space text = "some phrase" text = "!!!some!!! phrase!!!" These are not matches: text = "some phrases" ^ #the 's' on the end makes it false text = "ssome phrase" text = "some other phrase" I have tried using something like: re.search(r'b'+phrase+'b', text) I would very much appreciate an explanation of why