PyCon 2017 Regular Expressions Tutorial

This tutorial teaching regular expressions in Python was taught by Trey Hunner at PyCon 2017. Trey hosts Weekly Python Chat and provides corporate Python & Django training services.

The Exercises page lists all exercises and all instructions for writing and testing the exercises. Feel free to consult the Regex Cheat Sheet when solving the exercises.

The video for this tutorial can be found as Regular Expressions - PyCon 2017 on YouTube.

Contents

• Regex Cheat Sheet
  • Regex Syntax
  • Python
• Exercises
  • Validation Exercises
  • Search Exercises
  • More Regular Expression Exercises
  • Capture Exercises
  • Substitution Exercises
  • Lookahead Exercises
• The Basics
  • Raw Strings
  • Searching
  • Character Class
  • Anchors
  • Metacharacters
  • Quantifiers
  • Validation Exercises
• Regular Expressions Module
  • Special Sequences
  • Word Boundaries
  • Repeats
  • Case Sensitivity
  • Verbose Flag
  • Searching
  • Grouping
  • Capture Groups
  • Multi-search
  • Uncapturing Groups
  • Search Exercises
• Advanced Features
  • Alternations
  • Split
  • Compiled
  • Greediness
  • More Regular Expression Exercises
• Substitutions
  • Basic Substitution
  • Normalization
  • Using Captures in Substitutions
  • Using Captures
  • Capture Exercises
  • Named Capture Groups
  • Substitution Functions
  • Substitution Exercises
  • Lookahead
  • Negative Lookahead
  • Lookahead Exercises

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