Python Language
- Getting started with Python Language
- Awesome Book
- Awesome Community
- Awesome Course
- Awesome Tutorial
- Awesome YouTube
- *args and **kwargs
- 2to3 tool
- Abstract Base Classes (abc)
- Abstract syntax tree
- Accessing Python source code and bytecode
- Alternatives to switch statement from other languages
- ArcPy
- Arrays
- Asyncio Module
- Attribute Access
- Audio
- Basic Curses with Python
- Basic Input and Output
- Binary Data
- Bitwise Operators
- Boolean Operators
- Call Python from C#
- Checking Path Existence and Permissions
- ChemPy - python package
- Classes
- CLI subcommands with precise help output
- Code blocks, execution frames, and namespaces
- Collections module
- Comments and Documentation
- Common Pitfalls
- Commonwealth Exceptions
- Comparisons
- Complex math
- Conditionals
- configparser
- Connecting Python to SQL Server
- Context Managers (“with” Statement)
- Copying data
- Counting
- Create virtual environment with virtualenvwrapper in windows
- Creating a Windows service using Python
- Creating Python packages
- ctypes
- Data Serialization
- Data Visualization with Python
- Database Access
- Date and Time
- Date Formatting
- Debugging
- Decorators
- Defining functions with list arguments
- Deployment
- Deque Module
- Descriptor
- Design Patterns
- Dictionary
- Difference between Module and Package
- Distribution
- Django
- Dynamic code execution with `exec` and `eval`
- Enum
- Exceptions
- Exponentiation
- Files & Folders I/O
- Filter
- Flask
- Functional Programming in Python
- Functions
- Functools Module
- Garbage Collection
- Generators
- getting start with GZip
- graph-tool
- groupby()
- hashlib
- Heapq
- Hidden Features
- HTML Parsing
- Idioms
- ijson
- Immutable datatypes(int, float, str, tuple and frozensets)
- Importing modules
- Incompatibilities moving from Python 2 to Python 3
- Indentation
- Indexing and Slicing
- Input, Subset and Output External Data Files using Pandas
- Introduction to RabbitMQ using AMQPStorm
- IoT Programming with Python and Raspberry PI
- Iterables and Iterators
- Itertools Module
- JSON Module
- kivy - Cross-platform Python Framework for NUI Development
- Linked List Node
- Linked lists
- List
- List comprehensions
- List Comprehensions
- List destructuring (aka packing and unpacking)
- List slicing (selecting parts of lists)
- Logging
- Loops
- Manipulating XML
- Map Function
- Math Module
- Metaclasses
- Method Overriding
- Mixins
- Multidimensional arrays
- Multiprocessing
- Multithreading
- Mutable vs Immutable (and Hashable) in Python
- Neo4j and Cypher using Py2Neo
- Non-official Python implementations
- Operator module
- Operator Precedence
- Optical Character Recognition
- os.path
- Overloading
- Pandas Transform: Preform operations on groups and concatenate the results
- Parallel computation
- Parsing Command Line arguments
- Partial functions
- Performance optimization
- Pickle data serialisation
- Pillow
- pip: PyPI Package Manager
- Plotting with Matplotlib
- Plugin and Extension Classes
- Polymorphism
- PostgreSQL
- Processes and Threads
- Profiling
- Property Objects
- py.test
- pyaudio
- pyautogui module
- pygame
- Pyglet
- PyInstaller - Distributing Python Code
- Python and Excel
- Python Anti-Patterns
- Python concurrency
- Python Data Types
- Python HTTP Server
- Python Lex-Yacc
- Python Networking
- Python Persistence
- Python Requests Post
- Python Serial Communication (pyserial)
- Python Server Sent Events
- Python speed of program
- Python Virtual Environment - virtualenv
- Queue Module
- Raise Custom Errors / Exceptions
- Random module
- Reading and Writing CSV
- Recursion
- Reduce
- Regular Expressions (Regex)
- Checking for allowed characters
- Escaping Special Characters
- Find All Non-Overlapping Matches
- Flags
- Grouping
- Iterating over matches using `re.finditer`
- Match an expression only in specific locations
- Matching the beginning of a string
- Precompiled patterns
- Replacing
- Searching
- Splitting a string using regular expressions
- Searching
- Secure Shell Connection in Python
- Security and Cryptography
- Set
- setup.py
- shelve
- Similarities in syntax, Differences in meaning: Python vs. JavaScript
- Simple Mathematical Operators
- Sockets
- Sockets And Message Encryption/Decryption Between Client and Server
- Sorting, Minimum and Maximum
- Sqlite3 Module
- Stack
- String Formatting
- String Methods
- String representations of class instances: __str__ and __repr__ methods
- Subprocess Library
- sys
- tempfile NamedTemporaryFile
- Templates in python
- The __name__ special variable
- The base64 Module
- The dis module
- The Interpreter (Command Line Console)
- The locale Module
- The os Module
- The pass statement
- The Print Function
- tkinter
- Tuple
- Turtle Graphics
- Type Hints
- Unicode
- Unicode and bytes
- Unit Testing
- Unzipping Files
- urllib
- Usage of "pip" module: PyPI Package Manager
- User-Defined Methods
- Using loops within functions
- Variable Scope and Binding
- virtual environment with virtualenvwrapper
- Virtual environments
- Web scraping with Python
- Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI)
- Webbrowser Module
- Websockets
- Working around the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)
- Working with ZIP archives
- Writing extensions
- Writing to CSV from String or List
Example
For some special cases we need to change the behavior of the Regular Expression, this is done using flags. Flags can be set in two ways, through the flags keyword or directly in the expression.
Flags keyword
Below an example for re.search but it works for most functions in the re module.
m = re.search("b", "ABC")
m is None
# Out: True
m = re.search("b", "ABC", flags=re.IGNORECASE)
m.group()
# Out: 'B'
m = re.search("a.b", "A\nBC", flags=re.IGNORECASE)
m is None
# Out: True
m = re.search("a.b", "A\nBC", flags=re.IGNORECASE|re.DOTALL)
m.group()
# Out: 'A\nB'
Common Flags
| Flag | Short Description |
|---|---|
re.IGNORECASE, re.I | Makes the pattern ignore the case |
re.DOTALL, re.S | Makes . match everything including newlines |
re.MULTILINE, re.M | Makes ^ match the begin of a line and $ the end of a line |
re.DEBUG | Turns on debug information |
For the complete list of all available flags check the docs
Inline flags
From the docs:
(?iLmsux)(One or more letters from the set 'i', 'L', 'm', 's', 'u', 'x'.)The group matches the empty string; the letters set the corresponding flags: re.I (ignore case), re.L (locale dependent), re.M (multi-line), re.S (dot matches all), re.U (Unicode dependent), and re.X (verbose), for the entire regular expression. This is useful if you wish to include the flags as part of the regular expression, instead of passing a flag argument to the re.compile() function.
Note that the (?x) flag changes how the expression is parsed. It should be used first in the expression string, or after one or more whitespace characters. If there are non-whitespace characters before the flag, the results are undefined.
