CHARACTER CLASSES GROUPS

Python Use To match character Use To define

Regular \w Word character. [0-9_a-zA-Z] and (exp) Indexed group
Expressions Unicode word characters (?P<name>exp) Named group
\W Non-word character (?:exp) Noncapturing group
\d Decimal digit and Unicode digits (?=exp) Zero-width positive
SINGLE CHARACTERS \D Not a decimal digit lookahead
Use To match any character \s White-space character [ (?!exp) Zero-width negative
[set] In that set \t\n\r\f\v] and Unicode spaces lookahead
[^set] Not in that set \S Non-white-space char (?<=exp) Zero-width positive
[a–z] In the a-z range lookbehind. exp is fixed
[^a–z] Not in the a-z range QUANTIFIERS width
(?<!exp) Zero-width negative
. Any except \n (new line) Greedy Lazy Matches
lookbehind. exp is fixed
\char Escaped special character * *? 0 or more times width
+ +? 1 or more times
CONTROL CHARACTERS ? ?? 0 or 1 time INLINE OPTIONS
Use To match Unicode {n} {n}? Exactly n times Option Effect on match
\t Horizontal tab \u0009 {n,} {n,}? At least n times i Case-insensitive
\v Vertical tab \u000B {n,m} {n,m}? From n to m times m Multiline mode
\b Backspace \u0008 L Locale specific
\e Escape \u001B ANCHORS u Unicode dependent
\r Carriage return \u000D Use To specify position s Single-line mode
\f Form feed \u000C ^ At start of string or line x Ignore white space
\n New line \u000A \A At start of string
\a Bell (alarm) \u0007 \Z At end of string
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NON-ASCII CODES \b On word boundary
\B Not on word boundary http://bit.ly/PyRegEx
Use To match character with
\octal First digit 0 followed by 2 octal
digits or 3 octal digits Template: Microsoft/MSDN .NET Regular Expressions
\x hex 2-digit hex character code Python Reference: re module documentation
\u hex 4-digit hex character code
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BACKREFERENCES REGULAR EXPRESSION OPERATIONS
Use To match Module: re
\n Indexed group Processing a match
(?P=name) Named group Pattern matching with Compiled objects
Use method To
To initialize with Use constructor expand Replace a match
ALTERNATION Pattern re.compile(pattern) group Retrieve value of a group by
Use To match + flags re.compile(pattern,flags) number or name
a |b Either a or b groups Retrieve all subgroups as a
(?(n) yes if group n is matched Finding and replacing matched patterns. Use tuple
yes | no) no if group n isn't matched compiled object methods for additional groupdict Retrieve dictionary of named
(?(name) yes if name is matched options and fine-tuning parameters groups and values
yes | no) no if name isn't matched Use method To start Find starting index position of
re.match Find match at start of string a group
SUBSTITUTION re.search Find the first match end Find ending index position of
Use To substitute re.findall Retrieve all matching strings a group
\g<n> Substring matched by group re.finditer Retrive all matches
number n re.sub Replace a matching string
\g<name> Substring matched by group re.split Split text based on match
name
Getting info about regular expression patterns
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COMMENTS Use compiled To get
object API http://bit.ly/PyRegEx
Use To
(?# comment) Add inline comment groupindex Dictionary of Group names
and group number Template: Microsoft/MSDN .NET Regular Expressions
# Add x-mode comment to
end groups Capturing Group Count
Python Reference: re module documentation
pattern Pattern for compiled object
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