Regular Expressions 101

Explanation
Pro

Group name(?P<name>\w+)

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Group version(?P<version>[\d\.]+)

Character Class[\d\.]+

+matches at least one character from the set below:

\da digit

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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25 tokens

(?P<name>\w+)-(?P<version>[\d\.]+)\..*

django-1.8.0.dist-info

django-1.8.0.dist-info