On 2023-02-27 23:11, Jen Kris via Python-list wrote:
When matching a string against a longer string, where both strings have spaces in them, we need to escape the spaces.This works (no spaces): import re example = 'abcdefabcdefabcdefg' find_string = "abc" for match in re.finditer(find_string, example): print(match.start(), match.end()) That gives me the start and end character positions, which is what I want. However, this does not work: import re example = re.escape('X - cty_degrees + 1 + qq') find_string = re.escape('cty_degrees + 1') for match in re.finditer(find_string, example): print(match.start(), match.end()) I’ve tried several other attempts based on my reseearch, but still no match. I don’t have much experience with regex, so I hoped a reg-expert might help.
You need to escape only the pattern, not the string you're searching. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
