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regex invalid syntax line c

Hey, i'm searching how verify syntax line in python with a regex. These lines are invalid and need to return 1 i= 0; i =0; while (i<5) while (i <5) while (i< 5) strcat(buffer,ez) ...
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Regex to match sentences from facebook posts and comments

Looking to get a regex working in python that captures all of the message within a facebook post but then STOPS (instead of returning the rest of the JSON textline). I know the specific field that ...
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how to add wildcards to the re.sub and remove all characters before the _

i have the following code infile = botslib.opendata(ta_from.filename,'r') tofile = botslib.opendata(str(ta_to.idta),'wb') start = infile.readline() import textwrap import re ...
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Regular expression for UK Mobile Number - Python

I need a regular expression that only validates UK mobile numbers. A UK mobile number can be between 10-14 digits and either starts with 07, or omits the 0 and starts with 447. Importantly, if the ...
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Regular expression passes number in the first byte

I am trying to check to make sure a variable name starts only with alphabet and trying the below code to do it, But for some reason it's failing >>> a='1' >>> if ...
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Editing lines and removing lines from file

I have a file of accession numbers and 16S rrna sequences, and what I'm trying to do is remove all lines of RNA, and only keep the lines with the accession numbers and the species name (and remove all ...
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replacing last part of string after pattern

What is the best way to remove the last bit of a string, following a certain recognized pattern? For example: s = 'some Strings-and-stuff - SomeOther Strings-and-stuff - TAke.THis last -part ...
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How to eliminate the ☎ unicode?

During web scraping and after getting rid of all html tags, I got the black telephone character \u260e in unicode (☎). But unlike this response I do want to get rid of it too. I used the following ...
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Regular expression to split a huge string into multiple sets of key-value pairs

I've a huge string which contains many sets, each is separated by ,. Each set has key-value pairs in it, each pair is separated by &. Here is small example, ...
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repetition “{}” on fly for regex

I am trying to write a function that compare a value with a regex to see if matches. The problem is that I have quite a many regex that are similar with just one difference which the range {} e.g. ...
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Find numbers in string, modify and re-join

Probem: I have a string containing different numbers, math signs and words, e.g. str = ".1**2 + x/(10.0 - 2.E-4)*n_elts" I would like to extract all numbers and keep the parts between the numbers ...
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extracting a double from the middle of a string, can't use replace

I am trying to test a cache, and I need to extract information from the output. My code is as follows: import re for line in open("test-fmath.simout_ruu_size_2"): if "avg_alu_power " in line: ...
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How to find first instance of HTML comment starting with <!— ? (Python)

Is there a simple way of finding the first instance of HTML comment starting with <!--? I've been doing it as such: for line in open('some.html'): if line[:4] == "<!--": print line ...
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How does Python Re Module work in this examle?

What is the process of matching this regular expression? I don't get why the explicit group is 'c'. This is piece of code is taken from Python Re Module Doc. >>> m = re.match("([abc])+", ...
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Return 1st string that comes after the 1st “ahpt?” [closed]

This has been driving crazy! I'm trying to use regex (python) to return this string ...

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