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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": ([^\s]+)(?:[^\[]+)?\[([^:/]+[:/][^\s]+)(?:\s*l.[\d]+)?\] - ([a-f0-9]{24})?(?: - )?(.+)$" test_str = ("Nov 21 15:55:59 dasyure uwsgi.rtemail: INFO 18695 - [rtemail_base:process_m5e l.940] - 546f527f4b295f0ecb9a78b8 - ruid=ff6d4e50-dd2d-40c5-978c-0d8726674e4a m5e=66ae77250da162719d907a8d71bcceec from=mongodb ms=1 status=continue\n" "Nov 21 15:55:59 dasyure uwsgi.rtemail: INFO mule:18695 - [rtemail:process_in_exclusion l.355] - 546f527f4b295f0ecb9a78b8 - tagid=6545389 in_exclusion=false status=continue\n" "Nov 21 15:56:09 dasyure uwsgi.rtemail: DEBUG 18695 - [idents_message:__init__ l.22] - 546f527f4b295f0ecb9a78b8 - init_json json={'ruid': UUID('ff6d4e50-dd2d-40c5-978c-0d8726674e4a'), 'url': u'http://www.rueducommerce.fr/Ordinateurs/Ordinateur-Portable/Ordinateur-Portable-Grand-Public/APPLE/4920409-MacBook-Air-13-MD760F-B.htm#moid:MO-76BD5M31349632', 'ip': 127000000001, 'exclu': False, 'params': {'idproduit': [u'RSYS:30:4920409']}, 'message': {'google_cver': None, 'accept_cookies': True, 'ident': '6545389_ff6d4e50-dd2d-40c5-978c-0d8726674e4a_66ae77250da162719d907a8d71bcceec', 'ggruid': 3658, 'r1': (False, UUID('ff6d4e50-dd2d-40c5-978c-0d8726674e4a'), False), 'r3': (False, UUID('ff6d4e50-dd2d-40c5-978c-0d8726674e4a'), False), 'eulerian_uid': None, 'sync': [], 'tagid': 6545389, 'utcnow': datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 21, 14, 55, 59, tzinfo=<bson.tz_util.FixedOffset object at 0x7f3edfa707d0>), 'new_cookie': False, 'adnxs_uid': None, 'action': 3, 'google_gid': None, 'ck1add': {}, 'now': datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 21, 15, 55, 59, 329577), 'cpu': {'stats': False, 'pixel': False, 'syncJS': False, 'syncJarM5e': False}}, '_id': ObjectId('546f527f4b295f0ecb9a78b8'), 'ua': u'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.111 Safari/537.36'}\n" "Nov 21 15:56:09 dasyure uwsgi.rtemail: INFO 18695 - [rtemail_base_client:process_is_expired l.90] - 546f527f4b295f0ecb9a78b8 - expired=false status=continue") matches = re.finditer(regex, test_str, re.IGNORECASE | 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