spaces in re.compile()

Jeff Epler jepler at unpythonic.net
Mon Mar 21 11:44:50 EST 2005


Maybe you want r'\b'.  From 'pydoc sre':
    \b       Matches the empty string, but only at the start or end of a word.


import re
r = re.compile( r'\btest\b' )
print r.findall("testy")
print r.findall(" testy ")
print r.findall(" test ")
print r.findall("test")
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