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Each chapter is packed with practical tips and tricks that you can use to improve your Python skills and become more productive in your work. You'll learn how to use list comprehensions, the enumerate and zip functions, and the collections module to work with data more efficiently. You'll discover how to create custom decorators and use class-based decorators to simplify your code. You'll learn how to use regular expressions to extract and manipulate text. And much more!
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Example Chapter 7 - Regular Expressions Tricks
Regular expressions are a powerful tool for pattern matching and text manipulation in Python. In this chapter, we will cover some tricks for working with regular expressions, including basic regular expressions, regular expression functions in Python, and a code example of extracting email addresses from a string.
Basic Regular Expressions
A regular expression is a pattern that describes a set of strings. Regular expressions are composed of characters and special symbols that have specific meanings.
Here are some basic regular expression patterns:
.matches any character except a newline- `` matches zero or more occurrences of the previous character
+matches one or more occurrences of the previous character?matches zero or one occurrence of the previous character^matches the beginning of a string$matches the end of a string[]matches any character inside the brackets|matches either the pattern before or after the|
Regular Expression Functions in Python
Python provides several functions in the re module for working with regular expressions. Here are some of the most commonly used functions:
re.search(pattern, string)searches for the first occurrence of the pattern in the stringre.findall(pattern, string)finds all occurrences of the pattern in the string and returns them as a list of stringsre.sub(pattern, replacement, string)substitutes all occurrences of the pattern in the string with the replacement string
Here is an example of using regular expressions to extract email addresses from a string:
import re
import re
text = "Please send your feedback to john@example.com or jane@example.com"
pattern = r"\\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z|a-z]{2,}\\b"
emails = re.findall(pattern, text)
print(emails)
# Output
# ['john@example.com', 'jane@example.com']
In this chapter, we have covered some tricks for working with regular expressions in Python. Regular expressions can be a powerful tool for text processing and pattern matching and can help you write more efficient and effective code.
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