Oct 8, 2008 · What is the difference between the search () and match () functions in the Python re module? I've read the Python 2 documentation (Python 3 documentation), but I never seem to …

Jan 17, 2024 · 562 When I use the re.search() function to find matches in a block of text, the program exits once it finds the first match in the block of text. How do I do this repeatedly …

Sep 4, 2010 · 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)] ?

Jul 4, 2011 · Python offers two different primitive operations based on regular expressions: re.match() checks for a match only at the beginning of the string, while re.search() checks for a …

When matching an expression on multiple lines, I always used re.DOTALL and it worked OK. Now I stumbled across the re.MULTILINE string, and it looks like it's doing the same thing. From …

I have the following code which looks through the files in one directory and copies files that contain a certain string into another directory, but I am trying to use Regular Expressions as …

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"\."

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Dec 13, 2018 · Here's a note straight out of the re docs: Note The compiled versions of the most recent patterns passed to re.compile() and the module-level matching functions are cached, so …

Edit: The regular expression here is a python raw string literal, which basically means the backslashes are not treated as special characters and are passed through to the re.search() …