matching exactly a 4 digit number in python

[Mark Tolonen]

"harijay" <harijay at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:7424ff80-c645-4b30-b963-67997be29108 at j38g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
> I want to parse a number of strings and extract only those that
> contain a 4 digit number anywhere inside a string

Try:
    p = re.compile(r'\b\d{4}\b')

-Mark