Python Summit 2016

examples.py

# Named regex groups
import re

sentence = "\"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\" was published in 1979"
regex = "\"([\w ']+)\" was published in (\S+)"
print "find_all: %s"%(re.findall(regex, sentence))

match = re.search("\"(?P<book>[\w ']+)\" was published in (?P<year>\S+)", sentence)
print "match groups: %s"%(str(match.groups()))
print "match group1: %s"%(str(match.group(1)))
print "match group1 span: %s"%(str(match.span(1)))

print "match groupdict: %s"%(str(match.groupdict()))