How to use regex in a list

# list filtering with regex
import re
l = ['...', 'ram', 'karan','..','......', '....']

pattern = re.compile("\.\.+")
lst = [x for x in l if not re.match(pattern, x)]
print(lst)

# output 
['ram', 'karan']

Source: buggyprogrammer.com

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