In python, we can use the re module to use regular expressions.
Regular expressions use \ to escape special characters, because python itself also uses \ as escape, so when using regular expressions, there will be two slashes in 'python\\.org', in order to avoid In this case, we can use the following methods:
r'python\.org'
Some common methods of the re module.
findall
Returns all matching strings as a list, or an empty list if no matches are found.
You can also specify the start and end positions of the string.
import re string = "abcd2135asdfasfd3425" re = re.compile(r'\d+') result1 = re.findall(string) result2 = re.findall(string,0,8) #Specify the starting position, from the first character to the eighth character, so the last number will not match print (result1) print (result2) result: ['2135', '3425']
['2135']
search
Return as long as a match is found, and you can also specify a starting position.
import re string = "abcd2135asdfasfd3425" re = re.compile(r'\d+') result1 = re.search(string) result2 = re.search(string,0,6) #Specify the starting position, match the numbers from the 1st character to the 6th character print (result1.group()) print (result2.group()) result: 2135 21
match
If no starting position is specified, the default matches the head of the string. Returns None if there is no match.
import re string = "abcd2135asdfasfd3425" re = re.compile(r'\d+') result1 = re.match(string) result2 = re.match(string,2,6) #Start matching from c, and because match is the default matching string header, and the header is c is not a number result3 = re.match (string,4,6) #From 2 start matching print (result1) print (result2) print (result3.group()) result: None None 21
Online regular expression matching website: https://regex101.com/ We can debug regular expressions here.