Νίκος wrote:
On 7 Αύγ, 21:24, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
Use group capture:
found = re.match(r'<!-- (\d+) -->', firstline).group(1)
print(page_id)
Worked like a charm! Thanks a lot!
So match method here not only searched for the string representation
of the number but also convert it to integer as well?
r stand for retrieve the string here?
and group?
Wehn a regex searched a .txt file when is retrieving something for it
always retrieve it as string right? or can get it as a number as well?
The 'r' prefix makes it a 'raw string literal'. That means that the
string literal won't treat backslashes as special. Before raw string
literals were added to the Python language I would have needed to write:
'<!-- (\\d+) -->'
instead.
(Actually, that's not strictly true in this case, because \d doesn't
have a special meaning Python strings, but it's a good idea to use raw
string literals habitually when writing regexes in order to reduce the
chance of forgetting them when they _are_ necessary. Well, that's what I
think, anyway. :-))
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