eval evaluates the string as if it were a python expression. Eval does takes an expression as an argument. However, there's nothing special about this since every single value is an …

Jan 18, 2011 · Python calls expressions "expression statements", so the question is perhaps not fully formed. A statement consists of pretty much anything you can do in Python: calculating a …

Edit: The regular expression here is a python raw string literal, which basically means the backslashes are not treated as special characters and are passed through to the re.search() …

Feb 11, 2022 · It is also worth mentioning that normal quoting and escaping rules for strings make it very difficult to enter regular expressions (all the backslashes would need to be escaped with …

Python normally reacts to some escape sequences in its strings, which is why it interprets \(as simple (. You would either have to write \\(or use a raw string, e.g. r'\(' or r"\(". Second, when …

From PEP 8 - Style Guide for Python Code: The preferred way of wrapping long lines is by using Python's implied line continuation inside parentheses, brackets and braces. If necessary, you …

No. Regular expressions in Python are ... In order to replace text using regular expression use the ...

From the docs on re.match: If zero or more characters at the beginning of string match the regular expression pattern. I just spent like 30 minutes trying to understand why I couldn't match …

Nov 5, 2015 · You need to use re.split if you want to split a string according to a regex pattern.. tokens = re.split(r'[.:]', ip)

Jun 11, 2015 · Python 2.* I think just filter(str.isalnum, string) works. In [20]: filter(str.isalnum, 'string with special chars like !,#$% etcs.') Out[20]: 'stringwithspecialcharslikeetcs' Python 3.* …