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    This document provides an introduction to using regular expressions in Python. It discusses common regex patterns like ., *, +, ?, {m}, {m,n} and anchors like ^ and $. It also covers character sets, escapes like \d and \w, and flags like IGNORECASE. The document explains functions for searching, matching, substituting, and splitting strings using regex patterns like re.search(), re.match(), re.sub(), and re.split().

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    Introduction to

    Programming with Python


    Regular Expressions
    regular expressions
    regexes
    re
    docs.python.org/3/library/re.html
    re.search(pattern, string, flags=0)
    . any character except a newline
    * 0 or more repetitions
    + 1 or more repetitions
    ? 0 or 1 repetition
    {m} m repetitions
    {m,n} m–n repetitions
    . any character except a newline
    * 0 or more repetitions
    + 1 or more repetitions
    ? 0 or 1 repetition
    {m} m repetitions
    {m,n} m–n repetitions
    ^ matches the start of the string
    $ matches the end of the string or
    just before the newline at the end
    of the string
    [] set of characters
    [^] complementing the set
    \d decimal digit
    \D not a decimal digit
    \s whitespace characters
    \S not a whitespace character
    \w word character … as well as
    numbers and the underscore
    \W not a word character
    re.IGNORECASE
    re.MULTILINE
    re.DOTALL
    ^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`
    {|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA
    -Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(
    ?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-
    9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$
    re.match(pattern, string, flags=0)
    re.fullmatch(pattern, string, flags=0)
    A|B either A or B
    (...) a group
    (?:...) non-capturing version
    :=
    re.sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0)
    re.split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0, flags=0)
    re.findall(pattern, string, flags=0)
    Introduction to

    Programming with Python


    Regular Expressions

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