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  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

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# coding=utf8 # the above tag defines encoding for this document and is for Python 2.x compatibility import re regex = r"(([a-zA-Z-éÉèÈàÀùÙâÂêÊîÎôÔûÛïÏëËüÜçÇæœ'.]*\s)\d*(\s[a-zA-Z-éÉèÈàÀùÙâÂêÊîÎôÔûÛïÏëËüÜçÇæœ']*)*,)*\d*(\s[a-zA-Z-éÉèÈàÀùÙâÂêÊîÎôÔûÛïÏëËüÜçÇæœ']*)+,\s([\d]{5})\s[a-zA-Z-éÉèÈàÀùÙâÂêÊîÎôÔûÛïÏëËüÜçÇæœ']+" test_str = ("Apt. 120, 9 Quai de Caumartin, 21305 Tourcoing\n" "8 étage, 229 Boulevard de Caumartin, 41224 Clichy\n" "8116 Boulevard Pierre Charron, 51703 Bordeaux\n" "9 Quai de Caumartin, 21305 Tourcoing\n" "Apt. 901, 8431 Boulevard Vaneau, 85330 Mérignac\n" "314 Passage de la Férronnerie, 76818 Villejuif\n" "1 étage, 6645 Avenue des Grands Augustins, 47851 Lyon\n" "Apt. 889, 301 Place Adolphe Mille, 04320 Issy-les-Moulineaux\n" "Apt. 470, 147 Allée, Voie des Grands Augustins, 37097 Asnières-sur-Seine\n" "Apt. 356, 1 Allée, Voie de l'Abbaye, 83865 Champigny-sur-Marne\n") matches = re.finditer(regex, test_str, re.MULTILINE) for matchNum, match in enumerate(matches, start=1): print ("Match {matchNum} was found at {start}-{end}: {match}".format(matchNum = matchNum, start = match.start(), end = match.end(), match = match.group())) for groupNum in range(0, len(match.groups())): groupNum = groupNum + 1 print ("Group {groupNum} found at {start}-{end}: {group}".format(groupNum = groupNum, start = match.start(groupNum), end = match.end(groupNum), group = match.group(groupNum))) # Note: for Python 2.7 compatibility, use ur"" to prefix the regex and u"" to prefix the test string and substitution.

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Python, please visit: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html