{"id":3182,"date":"2021-11-30T07:51:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T07:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pythontutorial.net\/?page_id=3182"},"modified":"2021-12-03T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T08:27:08","slug":"python-regex-sets-ranges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pythontutorial.net\/python-regex\/python-regex-sets-ranges\/","title":{"rendered":"Python Regex Sets & Ranges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Summary<\/strong>: in this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the sets and ranges to create patterns that match a set of characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several characters or character sets inside square brackets []<\/code> mean matching for any character or character set among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sets #<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For example, [abc]<\/code> means any of three characters. 'a'<\/code>, 'b'<\/code>, or 'c'<\/code>. The [abc]<\/code> is called a set. And you can use the set with regular characters to construct a search pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the following program uses the pattern licen[cs]e<\/code> that matches both license<\/code> and licence<\/code>:<\/p>\n\n\n

import re\n\ns = 'A licence or license'<\/span>\n\npattern = 'licen[cs]e'<\/span>\nmatches = re.finditer(pattern, s)\n\nfor<\/span> match in matches:\n    print<\/span>(match.group())<\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> PHP<\/span> (<\/span>php<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
Output:<\/p>\n\n\n
licence\nlicense<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n\n\n
The pattern licen[cs]e<\/code> searches for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n