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Python- Regex for dir of certain depth
I have a regex expression but its not working for all cases.
I need it to be able to match any case of the following within two levels of depth:
If this word "test_word" is in the statement return ...
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Python - regex for dir
I have a regex expression but its not working for all cases.
I need it to be able to match any case of the following:
If this word "test_word" is in the statement return true
What I been using ...
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python regular expresions match # ner
I am trying to extract the positions using regular expresions in a file like this:
36 17.89 N, 2 51.62 W
35 51.13 N, 2 51.62 W
35 51.13 N, 2 49.14 W
36 17.89 N, 2 49.14 W
36 17.89 N, 2 ...
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how should I extract the double-quoted part of the text in python? [on hold]
I have a csv file, in which each record is a text. I would like my code to extract only the double-quoted part of the text, find the synonym of the extracted text in the thesaurus library, and update ...
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1answer
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How do you perform replacement of text in files and paste the replaced text at a specific position in one file
""" I am using this program to perform replamcement of text in four different files and
then compare this to a tepmplate and then paste the replaced text at specific
position in a ...
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re regex find first half but keep second half of line
Folks, doing my head in trying to search this question, as I find it strange to describe briefly...
I am trying to strip out unnecessary text from a bank statement eg:
source: TFR 09343-9724 to ...
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0answers
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Replace placeholders from a file in another file
I am trying to create a utility which would:
Extract placeholder from a .plh file placed on the file system.
Create a hash map through the delimited key-value pairs.
Replace the key from value ...
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Regex issue in python
I have a regex "value=4020a345-f646-4984-a848-3f7f5cb51f21"
if re.search( "value=\w*|\d*\-\w*|\d*\-\w*|\d*\-\w*|\d*\-\w*|\d*", x ):
x = re.search( ...
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2answers
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Comparing multiple file items using re
Currently I have a script that finds all the lines across multiple input files that have something in the format of
Matches: 500 (54.3 %) and prints out the top 10 highest matches in percentage.
I ...
0
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1answer
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Pythonic way to strip a string
I am trying to achieve a python equivalent of the following bash command:
VERSION=$( curl --silent "http://nexus:8080/nexus/service/local/lucene/search?g=com.xxx.yyy&a=zzz" | sed -n ...
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Python difflib with regex
I would like to compare a string A with a regex R.
A = u'Hi my friend, my name is Julio'
R = r'Hi\s+my\s+friend,\s+my\s+name\s+is([A-Za-z]+)'
At this time I can easily know if the syntax is good ...
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Python regex not working in code
I've uploaded it here..
http://regex101.com/r/hC2eH3/1
Let email.body =
> From: "FastTech" <[email protected]>
>
> == Ship to ==
> Example Name
>
> Shipping via ...
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1answer
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TypeError: expected string or buffer with re.match and matchObj.group()
I keep getting the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ba.py", line 13, in <module>
matchObj = re.match(r"^(\w+ \w+) batted (\d+) times with (\d+) hits and (\d+) runs", line)
...
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3answers
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How write a regex that preserve the order of appearence with python?
Given the following string i would like to extract a tuple such that the tuple preserve the appeareance of an assosiated id (POS tag). The order is: NCFS000, AQ0CS0. They need to be concecutive, no ...
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2answers
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Why regex findall return a weird \x00
I use a regex to build a list of all key-value pair present on line(string).
My key-pair syntax respect/match the following regex:
re.compile("\((.*?),(.*?)\)")
typically I have to parse a string ...
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Using lxml or ??? to extract information from webpages
currently I have the following code:
# Import der Pythonmodule
import urllib
import lxml
import mechanize
import sys
# Verbindung zum URL aufbauen
try:
URL = urllib.urlopen("http://...")
...
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1answer
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How to replace and shift the string pattern in python using re?
I have a snippet like
re.sub(r"""\s*(\p{LD}+)\s+NEAR/(\d)\s+(\p{LD}+)\s*""",r""""$1 $3"~$2""",'foo NEAR/4 bar')
in python.
expected output is
"foo bar"~4
but now i am getting
foo NEAR/4 bar
...
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3answers
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why python regex is so slow?
After long debugging I found why my application using python regexps is slow. Here is something I find surprising:
import datetime
import re
pattern = re.compile('(.*)sol(.*)')
lst = ["ciao mandi ...
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2answers
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Why Python chokes on this regex?
This looks like a simple regex, no backreferences, no "any" characters, I'd even dare to say it's parseable by a Thomson DFA and all. It even works, but chokes on very simple non-matches.
{\s*?
...
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4answers
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Python how to split a string into words that contain words with a single quote?
I have a string a, I would like to return a list b, which contain words in a that not starts from @ or #, and not contains any non-word characters.
However, I'm in trouble of keep words like ...
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0answers
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regular expression issue in django urls.py
I am serving static files in Django locally through their simple server. I have the following line included in my urls.py:
static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
(Bonus ...
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0answers
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How do I sanitize a list comprehension given by a user?
I am working on an interface for a simulator that is meant to be friendly to people who prefer the command line to a GUI. To give the simulator the levels, the user types the information into a file, ...
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3answers
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Replace two different characters with Regex
I want to use Regex to add a space between the parentheses and the arithmetic operators and digits.
For example, I want to replace (+ 2 3) with ( + 2 3 )
I wrote this Regex, but doesn't seem to ...
0
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1answer
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How to use regex to capture the correct repeated group?
A html containing 2 lines far apart from each other like below. Please note that there are 2 identical strings at the beginning of these two lines.
<a href="http://example.com">file ...
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0answers
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Finding fuzzy ratio average of certain words in a text file
I am trying to find the fuzzy ratio between certain words in a text file and get its average.
I written a coding which will find the fuzzy ratio of all the lines in a text file with 'hello' but not ...
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0answers
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Trying to use Python regular expressions on a web server(via CGI), works fine in IDLE.
def test_iterator():
with file as dictionary_file:
for line in dictionary_file:
if re.match(r"^%s$" % word_ex, line.decode('unicode_escape').encode('ascii','ignore')) is not ...
0
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1answer
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Python regex issues
Im trying to grab proxies from a site using python by scanning through the page with urlib and finding proxies using regex.
A proxy on the page looks something like this:
<a ...
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1answer
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re.compile does not work properly
I'm trying to find tag usin bs4, where text is in format: 'Firma: ...........'. The problem is that re.compile does not work for this at all. I can't find out what am I doing.
Here is the code of ...
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2answers
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Regex for name extraction on text file
I've got a plain text file containing a list of authors and abstracts and I'm trying to extract just the author names to use for network analysis. My text follows this pattern and contains 500+ ...
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1answer
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Can't get a regex to handle brackets properly
Apologies for the vague title.
I'm trying to get a regex that searches and OKs something like this:
"Brand New Song [Demonstration]"
by finding the "[Demonstration]" somewhere in the string, ...
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2answers
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Clean Messy Strings in Python
I have a messy inventory list (around 10K) to clean and I am some problems of using regular expression in Python to achieve this. Here is a small sample of my list:
product_pool=["#101 BUMP STOPPER ...
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4answers
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Parse values from a block of text based on specific keys
I'm parsing some text from a source outside my control, that is not in a very convenient format. I have lines like this:
Problem Category: Human Endeavors Problem Subcategory: Space ...
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1answer
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Search and replace between two files with search phrase in first file: Python
File 1:
$def String_to_be_searched (String to be replaced with)
File 2:
..... { word { ${String to be searched} } # each line in File 2 is in this format
..... { word { ${String} } # This line ...
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3answers
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parsing a path based on regex - Python
I'm trying to scan an Amazon S3 bucket, in order to search if a new version of our installer has been posted:
The bucket scan returns me something like:
versions/
versions/4.4.1.2/
...
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1answer
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Regular expression to parse sequence IDs
I'm having a bit of trouble with using regular expressions to extract information from flat files
(just text). The files are structured as such:
#
ID (e.g. >YAL001C)
Annotations/metadata (short ...
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3answers
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Parsing of parenthesis with sed using regex
I am looking for a command in sed which transforms this input stream:
dummy
(key1)
(key2)dummy(key3)
dummy(key4)dummy
dummy(key5)dummy))))dummy
dummy(key6)dummy))(key7)dummy))))
into this one:
...
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3answers
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Python re.split with comma and parenthesis “(” and “)” [duplicate]
so I got this code:
from dosql import *
import cgi
import simplejson as json
import re
def index(req, userID):
userID = cgi.escape(userID)
get = doSql()
rec = get.execqry("select ...
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2answers
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how to solve about regex file refining program?
I want to refine my csv file.
i imported fileinput, optparse, and re modules.
and loaded a csv file, and set if an word doesn't exist, delete it.
but i received blank file.
here is my code:
...
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1answer
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Match repeating characters from set
from re import search
import random
while True:
r = ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase + string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for _ in range(random.randint(1, 100)))
if ...
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2answers
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Is there a way to refer to the entire matched expression in re.sub without the use of a group?
Suppose I want to prepend all occurrences of a particular expression with a character such as \.
In sed, it would look like this.
echo '__^^^%%%__FooBar' | sed 's/[_^%]/\\&/g'
Note that the ...
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0answers
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Python code quality standards: How pythonic can it go? [closed]
So I started writing a simple dictionary parsing program that pulls out the words from a dictionary text file.
It tests for the words that end in "ATH" and spits out the results to an output file. ...
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What is the meaning of % in this python expression
Can someone explain what this regular expression means? I am looking at someone else's python code, and I just find myself curious as to what the expression is doing. I am also not certain what the ...
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1answer
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multiple regex matches on one line not working
I have some HTML which I want to extract out text blocks that:
begin with either # or | (pipe symbol)
followed by some text and a 'ticker' in brackets
followed by all text until the next match
...
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1answer
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Filter a list of tuples by pairwise pattern [closed]
I have the following string, wich is full of a word and it´s parts of speech:
[('lavadora', 'NCFS000'), ('sencilla', 'AQ0FS0'), ('facilidad', 'NCFS000'), ('casa', 'NCFS000'), ('marca', 'NCFS000'), ...
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1answer
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Python Regexp do not capture www. or .com inside xyz word in text data
View this Demo RegExp
I do not want to capture "xyz" word inside between www. or .com
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5answers
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Check that two characters are not adjacent in Python
In my program, I need to check a user-input equation to make sure that it's a valid equation. I got rid of any operators at the beginning or end by using myEquation[0].isdigit and ...
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2answers
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Regular expression for multiple occurances in python
I need to parse lines having multiple language codes as below
008800002 Bruxelles-Nord$Br�ussel Nord$<deu>$Brussel Noord$<nld>
008800002 being a id
Bruxelles-Nord$Br�ussel Nord$ ...
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Python regex for number with or without decimals using a dot or comma as separator?
I'm just learning regex and now I'm trying to match a number which more or less represents this:
[zero or more numbers][possibly a dot or comma][zero or more numbers]
No dot or comma is also okay. ...
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3answers
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Python regex capture text between “:” and “. ” (dot followed by whitespace)
I have some pieces of text like this:
GAEDS030, GAEDS031, GAEDS032 : Problem reported in a https://twikiae.myweb.es
/twiki/bin/view/Grid/ActFeb2011 previous entry has been observed in another disk ...
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What is the shortest and/or most efficient regex that will match any input string?
I'm using Python's re module to filter a lot of data.
I want to have a default filtering regex for when the user does not care, such that any input string will match.
I think the shortest and most ...
