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I am working on the file "2. Semester/ISJ - Scripting Languages/1. Project/xharag01.ipynb".
The first task is:
Strategy for Finding a Regex
We need a strategy to find a regex that matches all the winners but none of the losers.  I came up with this approach:

Generate a pool of regex parts: small regexes of a few characters, such as "bu" or "r.e$" or  "j".
Consider only parts that match at least one winner, but no losers.
Our solution will be formed by "or"-ing together some of these parts (e.g. "bu|n.e|j").
This is a set cover problem: pick some of the parts so that they cover all the winners.
Set cover is an NP-hard problem, so I feel justified in using an approximation approach that finds a small but not necessarily smallest solution.
For many NP-hard problems a good approximation can be had with a greedy algorithm: Pick the "best" part first (the one that covers the most winners with the fewest characters), and repeat, choosing the "best" each time until there are no more winners to cover.
To guarantee that we will find a solution, make sure that each winner has at least one part that matches it.

There are three ways this strategy can fail to find the shortest possible regex:

The shortest regex might not be a disjunction. Our strategy can only find disjunctions (of the form "a|b|c|...").  
The shortest regex might be a disjunction formed with different parts. For example,  "[rn]t"  is not in our pool of parts.
The greedy algorithm isn't guaranteed to find the shortest solution.  We might have all the right parts, but pick the wrong ones.

The algorithm is below.  Our pool of parts is a set of strings created with regex_parts(winners, losers). We accumulate parts into the list solution, which starts empty. On each iteration choose the best part: the one with a maximum score.  (I decided by default to score 4 points for each winner matched, minus one point for each character in the part.)  We then add the best part to solution, and remove from winners all the strings that are matched by best.  Finally, we update the pool, keeping only those parts that still match one or more of the remaining winners. When there...
Can you write Python code for it?
assistant
#Here is Python code to find a regex that matches all the winners but none of the losers.

def findregex(winners, losers, k=4):
    "Find a regex that matches all winners but no losers (sets of strings)."
    # Make a pool of regex parts, then pick from them to cover winners.
    # On each iteration, add the 'best' part to 'solution',
    # remove winners covered by best, and keep in 'pool' only parts
    # that still match some winner.
    pool = regex_parts(winners, losers)
    solution = []
    def score(part): return k * len(matches(part, winners)) - len(part)
    while winners:
        best = max(pool, key=score)
        solution.append(best)
        winners = winners - matches(best, winners)
        pool = {r for r in pool if matches(r, winners)}
    return OR(solution)

def matches(regex, strings):
    "Return a set of all the strings that are matched by regex."
    return {s for s in strings if re.search(regex, s)}

OR = '|'.join # Join a sequence of strings with '|' between them