<human>:  Regex to match 'lol' to 'lolllll' and 'omg' to 'omggg', etc
<bot>: Here is some code to write a regex statement to match 'lol' to 'lolllll'.

re.sub('l+', 'l', 'lollll')

#Warning: this code generation is experimental. Please inspect the code for any bugs before executing.