Python string pattern recognition/compression

Question

I can do basic regex alright, but this is slightly different, namely I don\'t know what the pattern is going to be.

For example, I have a list of similar strings:

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Answer 1

Here is a scary one to get the ball rolling.

>>> import re
>>> makere = lambda n: ''.join(['(.*?)(.+)(.*?)(.+)(.*?)'] + ['(.*)(\\2)(.*)(\\4)(.*)'] * (n - 1))
>>> inp = ['asometxt0moretxt', 'bsometxt1moretxt', 'aasometxt10moretxt', 'zzsometxt999moretxt']
>>> re.match(makere(len(inp)), ''.join(inp)).groups()
('a', 'sometxt', '0', 'moretxt', '', 'b', 'sometxt', '1', 'moretxt', 'aa', '', 'sometxt', '10', 'moretxt', 'zz', '', 'sometxt', '999', 'moretxt', '')

I hope its sheer ugliness will inspire better solutions :)