match.groups(default=None) Return a tuple containing all the subgroups of the match, from 1 up to however many groups are in the pattern. The default argument is used for groups that did not participate in the match; it defaults to None. For example: >>> m = re.match(r"(\d+)\.(\d+)", "24.1632") >>> m.groups() ('24', '1632') If we make the decimal place and everything after it optional, not all groups might participate in the match. These groups will default to None unless

match.groupdict(default=None) Return a dictionary containing all the named subgroups of the match, keyed by the subgroup name. The default argument is used for groups that did not participate in the match; it defaults to None. For example: >>> m = re.match(r"(?P<first_name>\w+) (?P<last_name>\w+)", "Malcolm Reynolds") >>> m.groupdict() {'first_name': 'Malcolm', 'last_name': 'Reynolds'}

match.expand(template) Return the string obtained by doing backslash substitution on the template string template, as done by the sub() method. Escapes such as \n are converted to the appropriate characters, and numeric backreferences (\1, \2) and named backreferences (\g<1>, \g<name>) are replaced by the contents of the corresponding group. Changed in version 3.5: Unmatched groups are replaced with an empty string.

re.match(pattern, string, flags=0) If zero or more characters at the beginning of string match the regular expression pattern, return a corresponding match object. Return None if the string does not match the pattern; note that this is different from a zero-length match. Note that even in MULTILINE mode, re.match() will only match at the beginning of the string and not at the beginning of each line. If you want to locate a match anywhere in string, use search() instead (see also search() vs.

match.group([group1, ...]) Returns one or more subgroups of the match. If there is a single argument, the result is a single string; if there are multiple arguments, the result is a tuple with one item per argument. Without arguments, group1 defaults to zero (the whole match is returned). If a groupN argument is zero, the corresponding return value is the entire matching string; if it is in the inclusive range [1..99], it is the string matching the corresponding parenthesized group. If a gro

match.endpos The value of endpos which was passed to the search() or match() method of a regex object. This is the index into the string beyond which the RE engine will not go.

match.end([group]) Return the indices of the start and end of the substring matched by group; group defaults to zero (meaning the whole matched substring). Return -1 if group exists but did not contribute to the match. For a match object m, and a group g that did contribute to the match, the substring matched by group g (equivalent to m.group(g)) is m.string[m.start(g):m.end(g)] Note that m.start(group) will equal m.end(group) if group matched a null string. For example, after m = re.search

pattern The regular expression pattern.

re.escape(string) Escape all the characters in pattern except ASCII letters, numbers and '_'. This is useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may have regular expression metacharacters in it. Changed in version 3.3: The '_' character is no longer escaped.

re.findall(pattern, string, flags=0) Return all non-overlapping matches of pattern in string, as a list of strings. The string is scanned left-to-right, and matches are returned in the order found. If one or more groups are present in the pattern, return a list of groups; this will be a list of tuples if the pattern has more than one group. Empty matches are included in the result unless they touch the beginning of another match.