Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

Python version (PEP440)

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Regular Expression
PCRE (PHP <7.3)

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^[Pp]ython v?(?:(?:(?<epoch>[0-9]+)!)?(?<release>[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)*)(?<pre>[-_\.]?(?<preLabel>(a|b|c|rc|alpha|beta|pre|preview))[-_\.]?(?<preNumber>[0-9]+)?)?(?<post>(?:-(?<postNumber0>[0-9]+))|(?:[-_\.]?(?<postLabel>post|rev|r)[-_\.]?(?<postNumber1>[0-9]+)?))?(?<dev>[-_\.]?(?<devLabel>dev)[-_\.]?(?<devNumber>[0-9]+)?)?)(?:\+(?<local>[a-z0-9]+(?:[-_\.][a-z0-9]+)*))?$
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gm

Description

Parses a python version which follows the PEP440 versioning scheme, obtained by calling the command python --version. This is done in an almost strict manner in order to avoid picking up undesired strings.

Submitted by anonymous - 5 years ago