Module sre

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# Module sre

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    Support for regular expressions (RE).

    This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to
    those found in Perl.  It supports both 8-bit and Unicode strings; both
    the pattern and the strings being processed can contain null bytes and
    characters outside the US ASCII range.

    Regular expressions can contain both special and ordinary characters.
    Most ordinary characters, like "A", "a", or "0", are the simplest
    regular expressions; they simply match themselves.  You can
    concatenate ordinary characters, so last matches the string 'last'.

    The special characters are:
        "."      Matches any character except a newline.
        "^"      Matches the start of the string.
        "$"      Matches the end of the string.
        "*"      Matches 0 or more (greedy) repetitions of the preceding RE.
                 Greedy means that it will match as many repetitions as possible.
        "+"      Matches 1 or more (greedy) repetitions of the preceding RE.
        "?"      Matches 0 or 1 (greedy) of the preceding RE.
        *?,+?,?? Non-greedy versions of the previous three special characters.
        {m,n}    Matches from m to n repetitions of the preceding RE.
        {m,n}?   Non-greedy version of the above.
        "\\"      Either escapes special characters or signals a special sequence.
        []       Indicates a set of characters.
                 A "^" as the first character indicates a complementing set.
        "|"      A|B, creates an RE that will match either A or B.
        (...)    Matches the RE inside the parentheses.
                 The contents can be retrieved or matched later in the string.
        (?iLmsux) Set the I, L, M, S, U, or X flag for the RE (see below).
        (?:...)  Non-grouping version of regular parentheses.
        (?P<name>...) The substring matched by the group is accessible by name.
        (?P=name)     Matches the text matched earlier by the group named name.
        (?#...)  A comment; ignored.
        (?=...)  Matches if ... matches next, but doesn't consume the string.
        (?!...)  Matches if ... doesn't match next.

    The special sequences consist of "\\" and a character from the list
    below.  If the ordinary character is not on the list, then the
    resulting RE will match the second character.
        \number  Matches the contents of the group of the same number.
        \A       Matches only at the start of the string.
        \Z       Matches only at the end of the string.
        \b       Matches the empty string, but only at the start or end of a word.
        \B       Matches the empty string, but not at the start or end of a word.
        \d       Matches any decimal digit; equivalent to the set [0-9].
        \D       Matches any non-digit character; equivalent to the set [^0-9].
        \s       Matches any whitespace character; equivalent to [ \t\n\r\f\v].
        \S       Matches any non-whitespace character; equiv. to [^ \t\n\r\f\v].
        \w       Matches any alphanumeric character; equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_].
                 With LOCALE, it will match the set [0-9_] plus characters defined
                 as letters for the current locale.
        \W       Matches the complement of \w.
        \\       Matches a literal backslash.

    This module exports the following functions:
        match    Match a regular expression pattern to the beginning of a string.
        search   Search a string for the presence of a pattern.
        sub      Substitute occurrences of a pattern found in a string.
        subn     Same as sub, but also return the number of substitutions made.
        split    Split a string by the occurrences of a pattern.
        findall  Find all occurrences of a pattern in a string.
        compile  Compile a pattern into a RegexObject.
        purge    Clear the regular expression cache.
        escape   Backslash all non-alphanumerics in a string.

    Some of the functions in this module takes flags as optional parameters:
        I  IGNORECASE  Perform case-insensitive matching.
        L  LOCALE      Make \w, \W, \b, \B, dependent on the current locale.
        M  MULTILINE   "^" matches the beginning of lines as well as the string.
                       "$" matches the end of lines as well as the string.
        S  DOTALL      "." matches any character at all, including the newline.
        X  VERBOSE     Ignore whitespace and comments for nicer looking RE's.
        U  UNICODE     Make \w, \W, \b, \B, dependent on the Unicode locale.

    This module also defines an exception 'error'.

Version: 2.2.1

Classes | [hide private]

| error
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Functions | [hide private]

match(pattern, string, flags=0) Try to apply the pattern at the start of the string, returning a match object, or None if no match was found. | source code

search(pattern, string, flags=0) Scan through string looking for a match to the pattern, returning a match object, or None if no match was found. | source code

sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0) Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost non-overlapping occurrences of the pattern in string by the replacement repl. | source code

subn(pattern, repl, string, count=0) Return a 2-tuple containing (new_string, number). | source code

split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0) Split the source string by the occurrences of the pattern, returning a list containing the resulting substrings. | source code

findall(pattern, string, flags=0) Return a list of all non-overlapping matches in the string. | source code

finditer(pattern, string, flags=0) Return an iterator over all non-overlapping matches in the string. | source code

compile(pattern, flags=0) Compile a regular expression pattern, returning a pattern object. | source code

purge() Clear the regular expression cache | source code

template(pattern, flags=0) Compile a template pattern, returning a pattern object | source code

escape(pattern) Escape all non-alphanumeric characters in pattern. | source code

_compile(*key) | source code

_compile_repl(*key) | source code

_expand(pattern, match, template) | source code

_subx(pattern, template) | source code

_pickle(p) | source code

Variables | [hide private]

| IGNORECASE = `2`
| I = `2`
| LOCALE = `4`
| L = `4`
| UNICODE = `32`
| U = `32`
| MULTILINE = `8`
| M = `8`
| DOTALL = `16`
| S = `16`
| VERBOSE = `64`
| X = `64`
| TEMPLATE = `1`
| T = `1`
| DEBUG = `128`
| _cache = ``{``(`<type 'str'>`,` `'``#.*``'``,` 0`)``:` re.compile(r'#.`*`')`,` `(`<type`...``
| _cache_repl = ``{``(``'``#\\1\\3\\2``'``,` re.compile(r'#`(`..`)``(`..`)``(`..`)`')`)``:` `(``...``
| _MAXCACHE = `100`

Function Details | [hide private]

### sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0)

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    Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost
    non-overlapping occurrences of the pattern in string by the
    replacement repl.  repl can be either a string or a callable;
    if a callable, it's passed the match object and must return
    a replacement string to be used.

### subn(pattern, repl, string, count=0)

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    Return a 2-tuple containing (new_string, number).
    new_string is the string obtained by replacing the leftmost
    non-overlapping occurrences of the pattern in the source
    string by the replacement repl.  number is the number of
    substitutions that were made. repl can be either a string or a
    callable; if a callable, it's passed the match object and must
    return a replacement string to be used.

### findall(pattern, string, flags=0)

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    Return a list of all non-overlapping matches in the string.

    If one or more groups are present in the pattern, return a
    list of groups; this will be a list of tuples if the pattern
    has more than one group.

    Empty matches are included in the result.

### finditer(pattern, string, flags=0)

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    Return an iterator over all non-overlapping matches in the
    string.  For each match, the iterator returns a match object.

    Empty matches are included in the result.

Variables Details | [hide private]

### _cache

Value:

      {(<type 'str'>, '#.*', 0): re.compile(r'#.*'),
       (<type 'str'>, '( +|\\n)', 0): re.compile(r'( +|\n)'),
       (<type 'str'>, '(^>>>.*)\\n?', 8): re.compile(r'(?m)(^>>>.*)\n?'),
       (<type 'str'>, '<a[^>]*\\shref', 0): re.compile(r'<a[^>]*\shref'),
       (<type 'str'>, '["\'](.+-div)[\'"]', 0): re.compile(r'["\'](.+-div)[\
      '"]'),
       (<type 'str'>, '[^a-zA-Z0-9]', 0): re.compile(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9]'),
       (<type 'str'>, '\\$([^\\$]+)\\$', 0): re.compile(r'\$([^\$]+)\$'),
      ...

### _cache_repl

Value:

      {('#\\1\\3\\2', re.compile(r'#(..)(..)(..)')): ([(1, 1),
                                                       (2, 3),
                                                       (3, 2)],
                                                      ['#',
                                                       None,
                                                       None,
                                                       None]),
       ('#\\2\\2\\2', re.compile(r'#(..)(..)(..)')): ([(1, 2), (2, 2), (3, 2
      ...