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Filterig/removing/excluding private IPs with port from a nested list
What:
Python 2.7 is being used.
I am using the virustotal API to generate a list of IP's, in list format. When I run type() on the object, it returns list. At the bottom is an example of the data. Is ...
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Regular Expression for numbers and letters but not only numbers
I have this string :
S3UPLOAD:Uploading file: /var/mobile/Applications/999445D0-5B4D-4078-9B81-4F65D3474971/Documents/2014-08-25 Driving 22.58.39/2014-08-25 Driving 22.58.39.vmd.zip 783:00
I would ...
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Pythonic Way to Add Space Before Capital Letter If and Only If Previous Letter is Not Also Capital
As the title says, I would like to add spaces before capital letters, but only if the prior letter is not also a capital letter. So 'HelloCHARLIE this isBob.' should become 'Hello CHARLIE this is ...
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Spliting strings surrounded by special characters
I have an input that looks like the following.
word1-word2
word1 word2
word1+word2
--word1--word2-
word1-word2
word1,word2,
(word1),word2
etc
I have to create a list that finally has ...
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Python Regex best delimiter to use?
I'm trying to parse a line using re.split in python. Here is an example line I am trying to work on:
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 4096 Sep 4 14:23 FolderName
drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 user1 ...
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Using fnmatch to match 2 parts of a file name
I am currently using fnmatch to find the files that I want to copy and to ignore the rest:
Below is some of my script just to give an example of how it's used.
pattern = "*.xlsx"
if fnmatch(name, ...
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how to match a string like hi-hello-yes using regular expression [on hold]
solution: (([^-]+-)hello|^hello)(-.+|$)
I want to use regular expression to match a sentence. The rules are:
hello must in a sentence
if - follow or ahead the hello, there must be something before ...
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python regex sub without order
I have following string "3 0ABC, mNone\n" and I want to remove m None and \n. The catch is that 'm', \n and None can be anywhere in the string in any order. I would appreciate any help.
I can do ...
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Write Folder Contents to CSV with Regex
I am trying to use the Python script here for my own purposes. I'm no Python bloke, so hopefully someone can see what I have wrong.
The below script doesn't error out. My CSV is created with no ...
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Python regex swallows one character upon new line substituion
I am trying to understand what is wrong with my python regex.
Task:
I have the following text.
This is a red fox\LF
that chases a cat.\LF
\LF
The dog barks.
I need to correct the first sentence by ...
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QRegExp For QSortFilterProxyModel - Find All Items In A List
Am using PyQt & getting stuck on using setFilterRegExp() with a QSortFilterProxyModel. The source model outputs integers 1-30, and the QSFPM is to filter 1-30, leaving only the numbers in a ...
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python web scraping inside html commets
the following is not necessarily a question. I created a little piece of code to extract data from a web page and I want to know what do you thing about the code and how to improve it.
I need to ...
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2answers
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RegEx grouping not what expected
I have the following regex that should pull out 3 groups
^(ser-num.*|\[ser-num.*])(?: )?(\w+)?(?: )?(http://.*\.com/(?:s(?:erial)?|p(?:roduct)?)/\d+(?:/)?(?:\d+|(?:\w|-)+)?)
These two strings:
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Python regex Find All Numbers Between 6 or 7 Digits
I am using this regex using the re module in python and getting this result:
In [156]: re.findall(r'.*\D(\d{6,7})\D.*', ' f123456 f1234567 ')
Out[156]: ['1234567']
...but I'm wanting this result:
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Python writing to file errors expected string/buffer
I have a code which will replace specific text from keywords iteratively,
Problem:When i provide a file as input i get error
Coding:(works good when text is provided within code)
import re, ...
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Extract items delimited with square brackets using python regular expressions
I'm trying to split out words/phrases delimited by square brackets using a python regular expression. I want to split the output. Conditions are that section of text beginning and ending with square ...
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Why do Python findall() and finditer() return empty matches on unanchored .* searches?
The Python docs for findall() and finditer() state that:
Empty matches are included in the result unless they touch the
beginning of another match
This can be demonstrated as follows:
In ...
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python re.findall doesn't match duplicates
Let's assume the input is like this. Actually it's longer, but for the sake of clarity, I'll leave it like this.
Valid from: Wed Mar 05 15:40:45 GMT+00:00 2014 until: Thu Jan 05 08:28:29 GMT+00:00 ...
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Python: Possible to use urlparse to parse domain from cgi bin URL
I have the following input string:
/cgi-bin/ivw/CP/dbb_ug_sp;?r=http%3A//www.some-super-domain.de/forum/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D2%26t%3D18564%26start%3D75&d=76756.76050130278
I wanted to use ...
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Perl regex meaning
I'm writing a python script using regex expressions and I found what is needed in perl, but as I am not strong in perl I don't clearly understand what is written. Here is the code:
'\\b' . $2 ...
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Python regex negative lookbehind not failing match
I'm writing a regex to match phone numbers. One of the problems I've encountered is that some postcodes look like phone numbers. For example, in Brazil, postcodes look like this:
30.160-0131
So a ...
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Python RegEx get specific text
I'm new to RegEx. I am using python to go through a web page and pick out certain text. I have been able to pick out part of what I need with some extra character attached. In the example below I am ...
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Scrapy Python spider unable to find links using LinkExtractor or by manual Request()
I am trying to write a Scrapy spider that crawls through all the results pages on the domain:https://www.ghcjobs.apply2jobs.com.... The code should do three things:
(1) Crawl through all the ...
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How to replace all occurrences of specific words in Python
How can I achieve the following behavior in Python in the more elegant way?
Suppose that I have the following sentence:
bean likes to sell his beans
and I want to replace all occurrences of ...
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regex expression for extracting a base file name from a path
I would like to get the alphabetic parts of a file from some file paths.
files = ['data/Conversion/201406/MM_CLD_Conversion_Advertiser_96337_Daily_140606.zip',
...
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Capturing named groups in regex with re.findall
When I was trying to answer this question: regex to split %ages and values in python I noticed that I had to re-order the groups from the result of findall. For example:
data = """34% passed 23% ...
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CPU efficient string matching for the following URLs in TCL [on hold]
I need a cpu efficient method match a random url to the following pattern. You can have https://abc.xyz.SomethingElse or https://abc.Something.xyz.SomethingElse in TCL. Would like to avoid regex if ...
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regex to split %ages and values in python
Hello I am new to python and regex.
I have a large CSV file which has a field like, %age composition that contains values such as:
'34% passed 23% failed 46% deferred'
How would you split this ...
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how can i validate chinese characters in a string which is mixed both chinese plus english
i have checked this post here but i have hard time to understand it and use it..i would like to validate a text file which has chinese, english and numerals. i have to check whether the chinese ...
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Django URL regex “is not a valid regular expression” error
I'm having a bit of trouble configuring the following url. I want it to be able to match a pages which start off with a category and then finish with a slug, examples:
/category1/post1/
...
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Scrapy date capture with regular expression
I have a working regular expression that is parsing a date below:
(?:(September|April|June|November) +(0?[1-9]|[12]\d|30), *((?:19|20)\d\d))|(?:(January|March|May|July|August|October|December) ...
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RE match fail in python, confuse with the result on regex101
http://regex101.com/r/oU6eI5/1 , test here seam works, but when i put in Python, match whole str.
str = galley/files/tew/tewt/tweqt/
re.sub('^.+/+([^/]+/$)', "\1", str)
i want get "tweqt/"
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replace a regex match group with a dictionary value in python
I'm working on a hobby project to write a clone of a popular Amiga BBS software program. One of the functions in this program was using a short code feature, much like BBCodes on forums, to change ...
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Python regex to match “spaced out” words
When dealing with text files that have been produced using optical character recognition (OCR) I often come across lines or parts of lines
t h a t a r e s p a c e d o u t l i k e t h i s.
I ...
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Python regular expression to match a file name. Using os.walk() to get a file name
I'm using os.walk() to get files name. What I need to do is to create a list with files name that match following patterns:
if '*' will match all files.
if 'h*' will match all files beginning with ...
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How can I use re's special characters when splitting a string?
Suppose I have this variable, named string.
string = "Hello(There|World!!"
Since I want to split on multiple delimiters, I'm using re.split() to do the job. Unfortunately, this string contains ...
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Can anyone see why my python regex search is only outputtings “0”s?
I'm working on a python program to extract all the tags within a kml file.
import re
KML = open('NYC_Tri-State_Area.kml','r')
NYC_Coords = open('NYC_Coords.txt', 'w')
coords = ...
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Validate a two characters code using python
I want to verify that a string is a valid code; in particular, it should be a pair of two characters. Think of a 2-chars country code. Using the re module I came up with the following:
valid = ...
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Find a word from text file and print part of the line using regular expression
I want to find a word from a text file and print the next word on that line using regular expression in python.
For Ex:
my name is xyz.
i like science.
i like to play volleyball.
This ...
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Regular expression which gets the last part after a special character [on hold]
I am new to programming need some help regarding regular expressions.
I have a string like this: xxxx.yyyy.zzzzz.mystring
What I need from the above string is "mystring", so I am looking for a ...
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Regular expressions: How to filter for two things at once
I want a regular expression that will return all words in a list that contain only consonants and no special characters.
The following Python code works:
import re
words = ["xkcd", "word", "xml-"]
...
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Split array byte string in Python
I'm trying to split a string of bytes like this:
'\xf0\x9f\x98\x84 \xf0\x9f\x98\x83 \xf0\x9f\x98\x80 \xf0\x9f\x98\x8a \xe2\x98\xba \xf0\x9f\x98\x89 \xf0\x9f\x98\x8d \xf0\x9f\x98\x98 \xf0\x9f\x98\x9a ...
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Regex throwing up sre_constants error
I am parsing the following data structure:
var teamFixtures = new WS.Panel(fixturesConfig);
teamFixtures.load([300, [[883762,1,'23-08-2014','17:00',300,'Atalanta',0,777,'Pisa',1,'2 : 0','1 : ...
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Python - regex - sorting Japanese addresses
I have to scrub a lot of Japanese addresses. This regex works on two regex test sites but I don't get the same results in my Windows terminal; I'm using Python 2.7.8 on Windows 7.
Here are the ...
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Security of regular expressions [duplicate]
Say that I want to let a user input whichever regular expression he wants, and a string to match, and I will check whether it matches using Python's re.compile. Is that secure? Is there a way for a ...
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Match everything inside multiple instances of a tag in a string in python
Sample string:
str = "<sec>John</sec> said hi to a woman (named <sec>Mary</sec>)"
Result should be a list:
res = [John, Mary]
I should really have learned regex by now.
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python regex split string while keeping delimiter with value
I'm trying to parse a text file with name:value elements in it into lists with "name:value"... Here's a twist: The values will sometimes be multiple words or even multiple lines and the delimiters ...
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Python: use regular expression to remove the white space from all lines
^(\s+) only removes the whitespace from the first line, how to remove the front whitespace from all the lines?
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Python string match
If a string contains *SUBJECT123, how do I determine that the string has subject in it in python?
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Regex for removing whitespace
def remove_whitespaces(value):
"Remove all whitespaces"
p = re.compile(r'\s+')
return p.sub(' ', value)
The above code strips tags but doesn't remove "all" whitespaces from the value.
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