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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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import re regex = re.compile(r""" ((?:[ -$&(-[\]-~]|([%'\\])\2)*(%(\d+\$)?[-+\s0#]?(\d+|\*)?(\.\d+)?[bt]?[diuoxXfeEgGcs]+)+(?:(?!(?:[ -$&(-[\]-~]|([%'\\])\7)*(?:%(?:\d+\$)?[-+\s0#]?(?:\d+|\*)?(?:\.\d+)?[bt]?[diuoxXfeEgGcs]+)+)(?:[ -$&(-[\]-~]|([%'\\])\8)*)?) """, flags=re.MULTILINE | re.IGNORECASE | re.VERBOSE) test_str = ("Color %s, we are looking for %%02droids %% number1 %d, number2 %05d, hex %#x, float %5.2f, unsigned value %u.\n\n\n\n" "I wanted to also add the ability to capture \"any printable text characters besides %, ' and \\, unless these characters appear exactly twice\". This needs to be captured both before the initial % and after the conversion character.\n\n" "any printable character: [ -~]\n" "besides %, ' and \\: (?![\\\\%'])\n" "these characters appear exactly twice: ( §§§§ |'{2}|\\\\{2}|%{2}) (§ = placeholder)\n" "I am having a problem with the \"unless\", that is, getting the negative look-ahead to discard single occurrences but allow double occurrences of the specified characters.\n\n" "Color %s, number1 %d, number2 %05d, hex %#x, float %5.2f, unsigned value %u.\n" "| | | | | | |") subst = "IMAGE REMOVED FROM CHROME\\r\\n" result = regex.sub(subst, test_str) if result: print(result)

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