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python regex to match only first instance

I have a python code and i’m reading a certificate and matching only the root cert. For ex my certificate is as below: I want to fetch only the root certificate, which starts with CZImiZPy. I read the certificate into the variable data and applying the below regex But it fetched both the encrypted certificates and not just the first

Python regex iteration for all combinations

I am new to regex. I am using Python 2.7 and BeautifulSoup4. I want to iterate over a particular regular expression. Required ouput : length : 5 , expression : [a-zA-Z0-9!&#%@] It should try all possible combinations e.g: [‘aaaaa’,’aaaab’,’aaaac’,…,’aaaaz’,’aaaaA’,…,’aaaaZ’,’aaaa0′,’aaaa9′,’aaaa!’,’AAA!!’] Moreover this should be possible too. If the expression is oranged{1} [‘orangea’,’oranges’]] I tried this: I realized that this is a

Search and filter pandas dataframe with regular expressions

I’d appreciate your help. I have a pandas dataframe. I want to search 3 columns of the dataframe using a regular expression, then return all rows that meet the search criteria, sorted by one of my columns. I would like to write this as a function so I can implement this logic with other criteria if possible, but am not

BeautifulSoup – search by text inside a tag

Observe the following problem: For some reason, BeautifulSoup will not match the text, when the <i> tag is there as well. Finding the tag and showing its text produces Right. According to the Docs, soup uses the match function of the regular expression, not the search function. So I need to provide the DOTALL flag: Alright. Looks good. Let’s try

Match open and close brackets in garbled string

how would one go about parsing a random string (which contains all sorts of characters) into something coherent? For example, string = ‘{“letters” : ‘321″}{}”‘}{‘{}{{}”‘: “stack{}}{“}’ I’d like to make separate into: {“letters” : ‘321″}{}”‘} and {‘{}{{}”‘: “stack{}}{“} I’ve tried iterating through string and counting each open bracket { and subtracting when a close bracket } shows up. However this

How to do CamelCase split in python

What I was trying to achieve, was something like this: So I searched and found this perfect regular expression: As the next logical step I tried: Why does this not work, and how do I achieve the result from the linked question in python? Edit: Solution summary I tested all provided solutions with a few test cases: In summary you

find words of length 4 using regular expression

I am trying to find words in regular expression with length 4 I am trying this but I am getting an empty list: What is wrong with my code ? my input is: here we are having fun these days my expected output: [‘here’, ‘days’] my output: [] Answer Use word boundaries b. When you add anchors in your regex

Reduce multiple blank lines to single (Pythonically)

How can I reduce multiple blank lines in a text file to a single line at each occurrence? I have read the entire file into a string, because I want to do some replacement across line endings. This doesn’t seem to work and nor does this It’s easy enough to strip them all, but I want to reduce multiple blank

Python regular expression for consonants and vowels

I was trying to create a regular expression which would allow any number of consonants , or any number of vowels , or a mix of consonants and vowels such that we only have any number of consonants in the beginning followed by any number of vowels ONLY, no consonant should be allowed after the vowels, it would be more

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