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import pycurl

sourceList = []
curlObj = pycurl.Curl()
curlObj.setopt(pycurl.URL, "http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/equality.html")
curlObj.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, lambda x: sourceList.append(x.decode(encoding="UTF-8")))
curlObj.perform()


    

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import functools, operator

sourceCode = functools.reduce(operator.concat, sourceList)


    

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import re

matches = re.findall("<!--(.*?)-->", sourceCode, re.DOTALL)


    

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len(matches)


    

    
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1

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searchSpace = matches[0].translate({ord("\n"):None})


    

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soln = [x.group(1) for x in re.finditer("[^A-Z][A-Z]{3}([a-z])[A-Z]{3}[^A-Z]", searchSpace)]


    

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soln


    

    
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['l', 'i', 'n', 'k', 'e', 'd', 'l', 'i', 's', 't']

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soln2 = re.findall("[^A-Z][A-Z]{3}([a-z])[A-Z]{3}[^A-Z]", searchSpace)


    

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soln2


    

    
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['l', 'i', 'n', 'k', 'e', 'd', 'l', 'i', 's', 't']

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