python regular expression (regex) Cheat Sheet

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Special characters Methods of 're' module Methods of 're' module (cont)

. Default: Match any character re.compile( Compile a regular re.sub( Return the string obtained by
except newline pattern, expression pattern into a pattern, replacing the leftmost non-ov​‐
. DOTALL: Match any character flags=0) regular expression object. repl, erl​apping occurr​ences of

including newline Can be used with match(), string, pattern in string by the repla​‐
search() and others count=0, cement repl. repl can be a
^ Default: Match the start of a string
re.search( Search through string flags=0) function.
^ MULTILINE: Match immediatly
pattern, matching the first location re.subn( Like sub but return a tuple
after each newline
string, of the RE. Returns a match pattern, (new_string,
$ Match the end of a string
flags=0 object or None repl, number_of_subs_made)
$ MULTILINE: Also match before a string,
re.match( If zero or more characters
newline count=0,
pattern, at the beginning of a string
* Match 0 or more repeti​tions of RE string, match pattern return a flags=0)

+ Match 1 or more repeti​tions of RE flags=0) match object or None re.escape( Escape special characters in
re.fullmatch( If the whole string matches pattern) pattern
? Match 0 or 1 repeti​tions of RE
pattern, the pattern return a match re.p​urg​e () Clear the regular expression
*?, *+, Match non-greedy as few
string, object or None cache
?? characters as possible
flags=0)
{m} Match exactly m copies of the
re.split( Split string by the occurr​‐ Raw String Notation
previous RE
pattern, ences of pattern maxsplit In raw string notation r"t​ext​" there is no
{m,n} Match from m to n repeti​tions of
string, times if non-zero. Returns need to escape the backslash character
RE
maxsplit=0, a list of all groups. again.
{m,n}? Match non-greedy flags=0) >>> re.mat​ch(​r"\W​(.)​\1​\W", " ff
\ Escape special characters re.findall( Return all non-ov​erl​apping ")
[] Match a set of characters pattern, matches of pattern in string <r​e.Match object; span=(0, 4),
| RE1|​RE2: Match either RE1 or string, as list of strings. match=' ff '>
RE2 non-greedy flags=0) >>> re.mat​ch(​"​\\W​(.)​\\1​\\W​", "

(...) Match RE inside parant​heses and re.finditer( Return an iter​ator yielding ff ")
indicate start and end of a group pattern, match objects over all <r​e.Match object; span=(0, 4),
string, non-ov​erl​apping matches match=' ff '>
With RE is the resulting regular expression.
flags=0) for the pattern in string
Reference
Special characters must be escaped with \ if
it should match the character literally https:​//d​ocs.py​tho​n.o​rg/​3/h​owt​o/r​ege​x.html
https:​//d​ocs.py​tho​n.o​rg/​3/l​ibr​ary​/re.html

Extensions

(?...) This is the start of an extension

(? The letters set the corres​pondig
aiLmsux) flags See flags
(?:...) A non-ca​pturing version of
regular parant​heses

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Extensions (cont) Match objects Match objects (cont)

(?P<na​‐ Like regular paranthes but Match.expand( Return the string Match.​ The integer index of the last
me>...) with a named group template) obtained by doing l​ast​‐ matched capturing group, or
(?P=name) A backre​ference to a backslash substi​‐ index None.
named group tution on templ​ate, Match.​ The name of the last matched
as done by the l​ast​‐ capturing group or None
(?#...) A comment
sub() method group
(?=...) lookahead assert​ion:
Match.group( Returns one or Match.​ The regular expression object
Matches if ... matches next
[group1,...]) more subgroups of re whose matc​h() or sear​ch()
without consuming the
the match. 1 method produced this match
string
Argument returns instance
(?!...) negative lookahead assert​‐
string and more
ion: Matches if ... doesn't Match.​ The string passed to matc​h() or
arguments return a
match next s​tring sear​ch()
tuple.
(?<​=....) positive lookbehind assert​‐
Match.__getitem__( Access groups with Special escape characters
ion: Match if the current
g) m[0], m[1] ...
position in the string is \A Match only at the start of the string
Match.groups( Return a tuple
preceded by a match for ... \b Match the empty string at the
default=None) containing all the
that ends the current beginning or end of a word
subgroups of the
position
match \B Match the empty string when not at
(?<​!...) negative lookbehind the beginning or end of a word
Match.groupdict( Return a dict​ion​ary
assert​ion: Match if the
default=None) containing all the \d Match any Unic​ode decimal digit this
current position in the
named subgroups includes [0-9]
string is not preceded by a
of the match, keyed \D Match any character which is not a
match for ...
by the subgroup decimal digit
(? Match with yes-p​attern if
name. \s Match Unic​ode white space
(id/name)yes- the group with gived id or
Match.start( Return the indices characters which includes [ \t\n\r​\f\v]
pattern|no- name exists and with no-
[group] of the start and end \S Matches any character which is not a
pattern) pa​ttern if not
Match.end( of the substring whitespace character. The opposite of
[group]) matched by group \s
Match.span( For a match m, \w Match Unic​ode word characters
[group]) return the 2-tuple including [a-zA-​Z0-9_]
(m.start(group)
\W Match the opposite of \w
m.end(group))
\Z Match only at the end of a string
Match.​pos The value of pos
which was passed
to the sear​ch() or
matc​h() method of
the regex object
Match.​e​ndpos Likewise but the
value of endpos

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Regular Expression Objects Regular Expression Objects (cont)

Pattern.search( See re.​sea​rch​(). Patter​n.​gr​oups The number of

string[, pos gives an index capturing groups in
pos[, where to start the the pattern
endpos]]) search. endpos limits Pattern.groupindex A dictionary mapping
how far the string will any symbolic group
be searched. names to group
Pattern.match( Likewise but see members
string[, re.​mat​ch() Patter​n.​pa​ttern The pattern string
pos[, from which the
endpos]]) pattern object was
Pattern.fullmatch( Likewise but see compiled
string[, re.​ful​lma​tch​() These objects are returned by the re.​‐
pos[,
com​pil​e() method
endpos]])
Pattern.split( Identical to re.​spl​‐ Flags
string, it()
ASCII, A ASCII-only matching in
maxsplit=0)
\w, \b, \s and \d
Pattern.findall( Similar to re.​fin​‐
IGNORECASE, I ignore case
string[, dal​l() but with
pos[, LOCALE, L do a local-​aware match
additional parameters
endpos]]) pos and endpos MULTILINE, M multiline matching,
affecting ^ and $
Pattern.finditer( Similar to re.​fin​‐
string[, dit​er() but with DOTALL, S dot matches all
pos[, additional parameters u unicode matching (just
endpos]]) pos and endpos in (?aiLm​sux))
Pattern.sub( Identical to re.​sub​() VERBOSE, X verbose
repl,
Flags are used in (?aiLmsux-imsx:...) or (?
string,
aiLmsux) or can be accessed with
count=0)
re.FLAG. In the first form flags are set or
Pattern.subn( Identical to re.​sub​‐ removed.
repl, n()
string, This is useful if you wish to include the flags
count=0) as part of the regular expression, instead of
Patter​n.​fl​ags The regex matching passing a flag argument to the re.compile()
flags. function

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