Regular Expressions and Building Regexes in Python

In this course, you’ll explore regular expressions, also known as regexes, in Python. A regex is a special sequence of characters that defines a pattern for complex string-matching functionality.

String matching like this is a common task in programming, and you can get a lot done with string operators and built-in methods. At times, though, you may need more sophisticated pattern-matching capabilities.

In this course, you’ll learn:

• How to access the re module, which implements regex matching in Python
• How to use re.search() to match a pattern against a string
• How to create complex matching pattern with regex metacharacters
• Explore more functions, beyond re.search(), that the re module provides
• Learn when and how to precompile a regex in Python into a regular expression object
• Discover useful things that you can do with the match object returned by the functions in the re module

What’s Included:

• 14 Lessons
• Video Subtitles and Full Transcripts
• 2 Downloadable Resources
• Accompanying Text-Based Tutorial
• Q&A With Python Experts: Ask a Question
• Certificate of Completion

Downloadable Resources:

• Course Slides (.pdf)
• Sample Code (.zip)

Related Learning Paths:

• Important Standard Library Modules