Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Brett Cannon @brettcannon@mastodon.social

11/25/2025, 6:28:37 PM

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In case anyone else missed it, Python 3.11 added _possessive quantifiers_ to the `re` module which I had never heard of before.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#module-re:~:text=%27%3Ca%3E%27.-,*%2B%2C%20%2B%2B%2C%20%3F%2B,-Like%20the%20%27*%27

re — Regular expression operations

Source code: Lib/re/ This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to those found in Perl. Both patterns and strings to be searched can be Unicode strings ( str) as well as 8-...

docs.python.org · Python documentation

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