From the docs on re.match: If zero or more characters at the beginning of string match the regular expression pattern. I just spent like 30 minutes trying to understand why I couldn't match …

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Mar 11, 2013 · If this is the case, having span indexes for your match is helpful and I'd recommend using re.finditer. As a shortcut, you know the name part of your regex is length 5 …

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Apr 22, 2014 · The problem with your regex is that \D can be anything except a number, so it will wrongly match strings with special characters in that position, and fail to match strings with …

Dec 21, 2011 · I'm learning regex and I would like to use a regular expression in Python to define only integers - whole numbers but not decimals. I could make one that only allows numbers by …

Dec 21, 2012 · A . in regex is a metacharacter, it is used to match any character. To match a literal dot in a raw Python string (r"" or r''), you need to escape it, so r"\."

Dec 20, 2024 · I want to filter strings in a list based on a regular expression. Is there something better than [x for x in list if r.match(x)] ?

First of all, using \( isn't enough to match a parenthesis. Python normally reacts to some escape sequences in its strings, which is why it interprets \( as simple (.