Special cases with groups
Python provides us with some forms of groups that can help us to modify the regular expressions or even to match a pattern only when a previous group exists in the match, such as an if statement.
Flags per group
There is a way to apply the flags we've seen in Chapter 2 Regular Expressions with Python, using a special form of grouping: (?iLmsux).
|
Letter |
Flag |
|---|---|
|
i |
re.IGNORECASE |
|
L |
re.LOCALE |
|
m |
re.MULTILINE |
|
s |
re.DOTALL |
|
u |
re.UNICODE |
|
x |
re.VERBOSE |
For example:
>>>re.findall(r"(?u)\w+" ,ur"ñ") [u'\xf1']
The above example is the same as:
>>>re.findall(r"\w+" ,ur"ñ", re.U) [u'\xf1']
We've seen what these examples do several times in the previous chapter.
Remember that a flag is applied to the whole expression.
yes-pattern|no-pattern ...
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