matching 3 or more of the same character in python

Question

I\'m trying to use regular expressions to find three or more of the same character in a string. So for example: \'hello\' would not match \'ohhh\' would.

I\'ve tried doi

Answer 1

(\w)\1{2,} is the regex you are looking for.

In Python it could be quoted like r"(\w)\1{2,}"