title: python regex: extract string from escaped sequences
body: <p>I do not get it. Why people down vote this without explanation? What mistake I made?</p>
  
  <p>How to extract <code>Apple Recipe</code>, <code>3</code>, <code>pages</code>, <code>29.4KB</code> from the following string?</p>
  
  <pre><code>'\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tApple Recipe\r\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n
  \t\t\t\t\t3\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpages\r\n
  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n
  \t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t29.4KB\r\n
  \t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried <code>re.compile('\w+')</code> but can only get results like:</p>
  
  <p><code>Apple</code> </p>
  
  <p><code>Recipe</code></p>
  
  <p><code>29</code></p>
  
  <p><code>.</code></p>
  
  <p><code>4</code></p>
  
  <p><code>KB</code></p>
  
  <p>However, I want to get them together as they are, not separately. For example, I want to get <code>Apple Recipe</code> together but not as two separate tokens.</p>