regular expression questions using module re

[Gribouillis]

You could use more_itertools.last()

>>> import re
>>> from more_itertools import last
>>> p = re.compile(r'foo(.+?)bar')  # <--- note the ? for the non greedy version of +
>>> s = 'foo123bar...foo789bar'
>>> match = last(p.finditer(s))
>>> match.group(1)
'789'