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regex to grab only one c-style multi-line comment immediately above a function

I'm trying to grab the multi-line comment in some c code that is above an arbitrary function using a regular expression. ONLY the comment immediately above the function and the function code itself is ...
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Don’t understand lazy regex

Say we have a string 1abcd1efg1hjk1lmn1 and want to find stuff between 1-s. What we do is re.findall('1.*?1','1abcd1efg1hjk1lmn1') and get two results ['1abcd1', '1hjk1'] ok I get that. But if we do ...
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Is there any streaming regular-expression module for Python?

I'm looking for a way to run a regex over a (long) iterable of "characters" in Python. (Python doesn't actually have characters, so it's actually an iterable of one-length strings. But same difference....
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