regex walktrough

[MRAB]

On 2012-12-08 23:34, Hans Mulder wrote:
> On 8/12/12 23:57:48, rh wrote:
>> Not sure if the \w sequence includes the - or the . or the /
>> I think it does not.
>
> You guessed right:
>
>>>> [ c for c in 'x-./y' if re.match(r'\w', c) ]
> ['x', 'y']
>>>>
>
> So x and y match \w and  -, . and / do not.
>
This is shorter:

 >>> re.findall(r'\w', 'x-./y')
['x', 'y']

But remember that r"\w" is more than just r"[A-Za-z0-9_]" (unless
you're using ASCII).