Regular Expressions in Python || Python Tutorial || Learn Python Programming

𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙥 𝙄𝙉𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙀𝙇𝙔: snu.socratica.com/python
Regular Expressions (regex for short) is a way to search for patterns in strings. Python provides the re module to assist you in your efforts to search through strings. Maybe you want to find names in a database that satisfy certain conditions. But before you charge right in and start throwing regular expressions around, you need to learn the correct syntax.
In this video, you’ll learn how to compose regular expressions using such cryptic symbols as the caret (^), dollar sign ($), various backslashes (\d, \s, \w), and more. And just wait ‘til you see what happens when you start combining them into a powerful combo search expression.
We also introduce such concepts as quantifiers so you can see how many times you get a match. Match, that’s another handy function, along with fullmatch. You’ll learn how useful it can be to create groups to name certain parts of a regex. We could go on, but it makes more sense for you to watch the video and take notes. Then share it with a friend and have them take notes. Then you can compare your notes and see if you are in agreement.
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

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[@nonominox]

Perfect timing, we're just starting with re in our Python class!

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How is it going? I’m starting mine this week

[@Socratica]

𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙥 𝙄𝙉𝙁𝙄𝙉𝙄𝙏𝙀𝙇𝙔: snu.socratica.com/python Quick Note: In regular expressions, a dot . matches ANY character. So our URL regex, https?://w{3}.\w+ etc works, but could be greatly improved if we replace the . pattern with \. The \. matches only the period.

[@HexenzirkelZuluhed]

Great video. Note however that in the last examples with the URLs, you are using '.' to look for a literal dot in the URL. A single dot in a pattern matches any character. If you want to look for a literal dot, you need to use '\.'. Also, Python supports verbose regular expressions, that allow comments inside the code.

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I thought I had some idea about regular expressions but now I know there's so much more to the re module. Thanks for inspiring us to dive deeper into the re module.

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RegEx is one of the most beautiful things that exists. Python make RegEx really easy and simple to use. 😍

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[@BrianStDenis-pj1tq]

Regular expressions go deep (really deep) - as in they are complicated and nuanced. This is an overview. The "corrections" explained in the comments are correct but maybe more useful for the next video on regex. I was going to suggest a video on regex module vs re... but that isn't a "learning" video, its an "advanced use case" video. Thanks Socratica!

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Awesome resource, as usual. I'm debugging an API and traced the issue back to some bad regular expression in one of the controllers.

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I'm glad you correctly pronounced regex (not like rejex) , and used the correct plural of index (indices). It took me a bit, though, to realize you were ironical about being unable to find the meaning of re.

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12:01 This regex will also match https followed by colon, followed by two forward slashes, followed by wwwsocraticaorg. The first dot would match the s, the backslash w+ would match ocratic and the last dot would match the a. To circumvent this, you need to escape the dot with a backslash.

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One sequence i find handy is \h. It matches whitespaces, just like \s, but \s includes newline characters whereas \h doesn't. Usually when i search through text i want to keep to one line at a time. edit: Actually disregard that. Apparently that sequence is not in python's regex module :(

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For some reason, my brain always forgets which of ^ and $ is the correct one to use in each case. Now I will always remember the ^farmer$.

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After months of research, I’m still unable to find what “re” stands for !! Love your videos !! Keep going

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Hey there great video and finally some python again! I have an annotation at 12:12 to make: while the dot technically matches the dot in regular expression it stands for "any character at all" (including the dot 🙂). If you really need a dot (and not a hyphen or anything else) we would need to escape that as well with \. 👏 Happy Holidays Socratica!

[@Socratica]

Excellent point! We should have spent some time talking about the . pattern since it's so common. We'll pin a comment to make sure people understand the difference between . \.

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@@Socratica you never pinned this guys comment

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Interesting! 👏

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Welcome back. We missed you! To save time and oxygen,... Classic! Something happens,... and then they profit. Hilarious!

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[@oliver2671]

Q: ChatGPT, please extract two consecutive vowels by using regex in python from following string: "Francois". A:.... Simple code problems do not need to be understood anymore, great!

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Exactly my thoughts. The revolution's coming but not too many people in the comment section are aware of this😉

[@cuszco]

I don't think "do not need to be understood anymore" is the right approach to this time saving marvel, though.

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@@cuszco Take it with a slight hint of sarcasm

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@@oliver2671 That's actually a good idea. Thanks :D

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Who knows. Perhaps "Hand-coded" will become a thing. Just like "Hand-Made". Then again... maybe not.

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[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Here’s a handy one: “\b” for matching word boundaries. For example, using “\bi\b” to search through code for the variable “i” without matching parts of every single word containing the letter “i”.

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Thank you I love your videos. I use them in my cyber security class to help my students with Python

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We're so thrilled you're sharing our videos with your students. Thank you for letting us know!

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Love this channel

[@lack76]

Man I have spent quite a bit of time on regex, but as soon as I turn away from it for 5 seconds the knowledge floats away.

[@NipkowDisk]

I think regular expressions are like oysters: you either love them or hate them. Personally, I love them as they really helped me to extract data from one file format and convert it into another for usage in a land surveying statistical analysis program :)

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@Socratica which editor/theme do you use?

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after a long time!

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Good to understand 😊

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i think you meant letters when you are saying words!! you contents are awesome

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great video and presentation, what is the software you used to make such great presentation?

[@scottbiggs8894]

I deeply applaud this video, thank you! But could you update this for python 3? A host of regex no longer functions as specified in this video.

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Nice tutorial and nice video

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Enjoy examples They help Make it clear

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Regex is very powerful but I've always found it easy but confusing

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WOW ...me at 5.32.... how cool is that???? cool video...

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good explantion thankyou

[@StevenHancz]

Correction @6:55 the regex is looking for strings that contain 'C' followed by word characters not string shat start with 'C' character. The regex needs the ^ prefix to make it search for sting starting with 'C'.

[@Socratica]

We were actually using this regex to look for any sequence of characters that starts with C, not strings that start with C themselves. Here's a case where some emphasis would have been a good idea, especially since so many of our examples used the ^ pattern.

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Her expressions are so priceless

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"They start with carrots, something happens, and then they profit". That shit in 2x speed is hilarious

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Well done as always, glad to see a new one. Richard K5ANR

[@maximillianquaife-larsen3799]

Thank you

[@fdama]

7:29 How did the regex match "HappyCodingRobot"? It starts with H not C.

[@GrypV]

Thanks!

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Thank you so much for your kind support!! 💜🦉

[@XxKingfisherxX]

what does "?=.*" mean in regex? Expecting detail lesson.

[@kyoujinko]

;0Thank you, I just wanted to know what REGEX was. Other videos were getting very complicated into the process of it, and all I wanted was to know what it was

[@Flashxyz123]

doesnt the RE module stand for regular expretions?

[@danycordero5308]

Hi Socratica, Please be informed that the examples using char (code 710)" ^ " shown in this video do not match with the objetive ?? can you explain the reason? , for example the expression /^\w{7}$ / does not find any character.

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Thanks

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Goodness, thank you so much for your support! 💜🦉

[@SpeaksYourWord]

re stands for regular expressions?

[@jonnmostovoy2406]

Don't use regular expressions. Use parser combinators. Thank me later. Parsec is a parser combinator library for Python. User gdevanla has a nice blogpost about it.

[@Lilina3456]

RE stands for Regular Expressions 5:00

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"Humans spend much of their time searching for meaning, Coders spend much of their time searching through strings" is so true 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Wait is this new series for Python?

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best

[@akshaybaura]

re probably just stands for Regular Expressions. :)