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Andrew McLane
3,385 Pointsnegate.py help
I'm not sure I understand what order to put things in. I tried a bunch of combinations using the plus sign and a negation set, but I keep getting the original string or an empty string. Or, sometimes I get numbers broken between commas, and for some reason the number 7 is always still there. Any help is appreciated.
import re
string = '1234567890'
good_numbers = re.findall(r'\d+[^567]', string)
2 Answers
Jeffrey James
2,636 PointsYou're pretty close - there's no need for the \d, which recognizes a digit generally https://stackoverflow.com/a/6479605/3182843
The [^567] reads NOT match a 5 or 6 or 7
>>> import re
>>> string = '1234567890'
>>> # Create a variable named good_numbers that is an re.findall() where the pattern matches anything in string except the numbers 5, 6, and 7.
...
>>> re.findall(r'[^567]', string)
['1', '2', '3', '4', '8', '9', '0']
had you something like this and wanted to only return digits
>>> data = "jeffrey34"
>>> re.findall(r'\d+', data)
['34']
>>>
Jeffrey James
2,636 PointsThe + operator is a repetition character. So if you're saying to match all blocks of non 5s, 6s or 7s, it finds 2 of them in your original string. To be honest, that's fairly obscure. Usually, at least in my experience, when you write regexp, you inevitably have to fool around to get it correct, especially on non trivial problems. You also may not fully understand what happened, but you can verify that it worked :)
>>> re.findall( r'[^567]', string)
['1', '2', '3', '4', '8', '9', '0']
>>> re.findall( r'[^567]+', string)
['1234', '890']
Andrew McLane
3,385 PointsAndrew McLane
3,385 PointsThanks for the reply. My next question is why does something like r'[^567]+, string
return ['1234', '890]
I though it would make it into a continuous string, like ['1234890']