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Handling Leading Characters

import re  phonePattern = re.compile(r'^\D*(\d{3})\D*(\d{3})\D*(\d{4})\D*(\d*)$')     print phonePattern.search('(000)8881234 ext. 1234').groups()                   print phonePattern.search('000-888-1234').groups()                            print phonePattern.search('work 1-(000) 888.1234 #1234')