I’m building an app on Google App Engine. I’m incredibly new to Python and have been beating my head against the following problem for the past 3 days. I have a class to represent an RSS Feed and in this class I have a method called setUrl. Input to this method is a URL. I’m trying to use th…
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Delete digits in Python (Regex)
I’m trying to delete all digits from a string. However the next code deletes as well digits contained in any word, and obviously I don’t want that. I’ve been trying many regular expressions with no success. Thanks! Result: This must not b deletd, but the number at the end yes Answer Add a sp…
Find Hyperlinks in Text using Python (twitter related)
How can I parse text and find all instances of hyperlinks with a string? The hyperlink will not be in the html format of <a href=”http://test.com”>test</a> but just http://test.com Secondly, I would like to then convert the original string and replace all instances of hyperlinks into c…
Python re.findall with groupdicts
I kind of wish that there were a version of re.findall that returned groupdicts instead of just groups. Am I missing some simple way to accomplish the same result? Does anybody know of a reason that this function doesn’t exist? Answer You could use the finditer() function. This will give you a sequence …
What is the difference between re.search and re.match?
What is the difference between the search() and match() functions in the Python re module? I’ve read the Python 2 documentation (Python 3 documentation), but I never seem to remember it. I keep having to look it up and re-learn it. I’m hoping that someone will answer it clearly with examples so th…