Cofused with regex in Python -

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• difference between 2 regular expressions: [abc]+ , ([abc])+ 5 answers

i have following code:

re.findall(r'(\w)*','2sq')

why result of programme is: ['q', '']?

i thought ['2','s','q',' '].

remove * , you'll expected result. * greedy, looks want each \w , findall that.