Python regular expressions

In this Python Programming Tutorial, we will be learning how to read, write, and match regular expressions with the re module. Regular expressions are extremely useful for matching common patterns of text such as email addresses, phone numbers, URLs, etc. Learning how to do this within Python will allow us to quickly parse files and text for the information we need.

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Contents:

1. Regex cheatsheet
2. Finding matches with finditer method
3. Simple pattern matching
4. Using character sets to find a match []
5. Using quantifiers to match more than one character at once
6. Using groups to match for several different patterns
7. How to capture information from groups
8. Other useful methods
9. Flags