Find shortest matches between two strings

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This regex should match what you want:

(start((?!start).)*?end)

Use re.findall method and single-line modifier re.S to get all the occurences in a multi-line string:

re.findall('(start((?!start).)*?end)', text, re.S)

See a test here.

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