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Extract words surrounding a search word

I have this script that does a word search in text. The search goes pretty good and results work as expected. What I'm trying to achieve is extract n words close to the match. For example: The ...
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replacing only single instances of a character with python regexp

I am trying to replace single $ characters with something else, and want to ignore multiple $ characters in a row, and I can't quite figure out how. I tried using lookahead: s='$a $$b $$$c $d' ...
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Python dir() function with filtering, regex and pretty printing options

dir() is a handy function for developers; which returns a list of names- comprising the attributes of the given object and of attributes reachable from it (1) I am really interested in seeing only ...
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How can I capture a value from a string and then remove it?

I'm trying to get the number from a string and then remove that number. For instance, I'm going to have a string like '42Xmessage' where 42 is the number I want (it could be any number of digits) and ...
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Regex matching string python

I wanted to match the following string: strings = iamcool.iplay=ball?end I want to remove items starting (including the ".") and up till "?", so I want to remove .iplay=ball, so I should have ...
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Python list of strings and list of regexes, clean way to find strings which don't match anything?

So, I have a list of regex patterns, and a list of strings, what I want to do is to say within this list of strings, are there any strings which do not match any of the regexes. At present, I'm ...
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Divide string by line break or period with Python regular expressions

I have a string: """Hello. It's good to meet you. My name is Bob.""" I'm trying to find the best way to split this into a list divided by periods and linebreaks: ["Hello", "It's good to meet you", ...
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Why I don't do this regular expression? [on hold]

I have a problem about a regular expression... Python can do the next part of code but if I change the final expression I can't run the code. In the final line from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import ...
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Parsing Text Files with Python 3, Regex and Random Numbers

Here is the input text file I am working with: https://gist.github.com/TestAcc7777/5983147 In the text file, each line after the initial few contains 'CORE X', where X is a number from 1 to 64. Some ...
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What do group() and contents[] mean?

I'am learning about the modules of re and BeautifulSoup. I have a doubt in few lines of the next code. I don't know the use of group() and what's inside of brackets in contents[] from bs4 import ...
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How to use Python re to parse this string in to list of multiple key value pairs?

I have a string of in Python str1 = 'abc(1),bcd(xxx),ddd(dfk dsaf)' How to use re to parse it into an object say 'results' so I can do something like: for k,v in results: print('key = %r, value ...
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Regex findall start() and end() ? Python

i'm trying to get the start and end positions of a query in sequence by using re.findall import re sequence = 'aaabbbaaacccdddeeefff' query = 'aaa' findall = re.findall(query,sequence) ...
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Extract specific values from string

I want to extract all words that have the following label "w=". Example, I will need, " THAT HAVE RECEIVED NO" from the string below. w="THAT" v="22.23092" a="19.09109" i="3"/> <r s="1480150" ...
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Need to extract substring in python with regex

I have a string ('some text', [], ['IP address']) I want to extract only the 'some text' part from this whole string. I have no experience with regular expressions, which is needed here.
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Find php string concatenation using python regex

I've recently inherited a number of php files that served as email templates. These php files consist of strings concatenated with php variables. I would like to find all the variable names used in ...

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