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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Groups

Posted by Kathryn Klarich
Kathryn Klarich
4,622 Points

Regex: why do we use the - in front of \w?

In this video and preceding videos, chris uses this set of caracters:

print(re.findall(r''' ([-\w ]+, \s[-\w ]+)\t ''', data, re.X))

I can't figure out why there is a - in front of the \w, since the names in the data file do not have a "-" in them.

Thanks!

Kathryn

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points
Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

Hi Kathryn - One of the names, Sven-Erik, has a hyphen.