== Why is this an issue?

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=== Noncompliant code example

[source,python]
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r"[ab]|a"   # The "|a" is redundant because "[ab]" already matches "a"
r".*|a"     # .* matches everything, so any other alternative is redundant
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=== Compliant solution

[source,python]
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r"[ab]"
r".*"
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