Regex example

gistfile1.py

import re

input = 'vaibhav2614 #ruhack: hello there aiden'

expression = '(.+)\s+#(.+): (.+)'

output = re.search(expression, input)

print output.group(0)
print output.group(1)
print output.group(2)
print output.group(3)

import pdb; pdb.set_trace();