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Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +00001# module 're' -- A collection of regular expression operations
2
Ka-Ping Yee22fcae92001-03-10 09:33:14 +00003r"""Support for regular expressions (RE).
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +00004
5This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to
6those found in Perl. It's 8-bit clean: the strings being processed may
7contain both null bytes and characters whose high bit is set. Regular
8expression pattern strings may not contain null bytes, but can specify
9the null byte using the \\number notation. Characters with the high
10bit set may be included.
11
12Regular expressions can contain both special and ordinary
13characters. Most ordinary characters, like "A", "a", or "0", are the
14simplest regular expressions; they simply match themselves. You can
15concatenate ordinary characters, so last matches the string 'last'.
16
17The special characters are:
18 "." Matches any character except a newline.
19 "^" Matches the start of the string.
20 "$" Matches the end of the string.
21 "*" Matches 0 or more (greedy) repetitions of the preceding RE.
22 Greedy means that it will match as many repetitions as possible.
23 "+" Matches 1 or more (greedy) repetitions of the preceding RE.
24 "?" Matches 0 or 1 (greedy) of the preceding RE.
25 *?,+?,?? Non-greedy versions of the previous three special characters.
26 {m,n} Matches from m to n repetitions of the preceding RE.
27 {m,n}? Non-greedy version of the above.
28 "\\" Either escapes special characters or signals a special sequence.
29 [] Indicates a set of characters.
30 A "^" as the first character indicates a complementing set.
31 "|" A|B, creates an RE that will match either A or B.
32 (...) Matches the RE inside the parentheses.
33 The contents can be retrieved or matched later in the string.
34 (?iLmsx) Set the I, L, M, S, or X flag for the RE.
35 (?:...) Non-grouping version of regular parentheses.
36 (?P<name>...) The substring matched by the group is accessible by name.
37 (?P=name) Matches the text matched earlier by the group named name.
38 (?#...) A comment; ignored.
39 (?=...) Matches if ... matches next, but doesn't consume the string.
40 (?!...) Matches if ... doesn't match next.
41
42The special sequences consist of "\\" and a character from the list
43below. If the ordinary character is not on the list, then the
44resulting RE will match the second character.
45 \\number Matches the contents of the group of the same number.
46 \\A Matches only at the start of the string.
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +000047 \\Z Matches only at the end of the string.
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +000048 \\b Matches the empty string, but only at the start or end of a word.
49 \\B Matches the empty string, but not at the start or end of a word.
50 \\d Matches any decimal digit; equivalent to the set [0-9].
51 \\D Matches any non-digit character; equivalent to the set [^0-9].
52 \\s Matches any whitespace character; equivalent to [ \\t\\n\\r\\f\\v].
53 \\S Matches any non-whitespace character; equiv. to [^ \\t\\n\\r\\f\\v].
54 \\w Matches any alphanumeric character; equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_].
55 With LOCALE, it will match the set [0-9_] plus characters defined
56 as letters for the current locale.
57 \\W Matches the complement of \\w.
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +000058 \\\\ Matches a literal backslash.
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +000059
60This module exports the following functions:
61 match Match a regular expression pattern to the beginning of a string.
62 search Search a string for the presence of a pattern.
63 sub Substitute occurrences of a pattern found in a string.
64 subn Same as sub, but also return the number of substitutions made.
65 split Split a string by the occurrences of a pattern.
66 findall Find all occurrences of a pattern in a string.
67 compile Compile a pattern into a RegexObject.
68 escape Backslash all non-alphanumerics in a string.
69
70This module exports the following classes:
71 RegexObject Holds a compiled regular expression pattern.
72 MatchObject Contains information about pattern matches.
73
74Some of the functions in this module takes flags as optional parameters:
75 I IGNORECASE Perform case-insensitive matching.
76 L LOCALE Make \w, \W, \b, \B, dependent on the current locale.
77 M MULTILINE "^" matches the beginning of lines as well as the string.
78 "$" matches the end of lines as well as the string.
79 S DOTALL "." matches any character at all, including the newline.
Thomas Wouters7e474022000-07-16 12:04:32 +000080 X VERBOSE Ignore whitespace and comments for nicer looking RE's.
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +000081
82This module also defines an exception 'error'.
83
84"""
85
86
87import sys
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +000088from pcre import *
89
Andrew M. Kuchling73019072002-04-10 21:36:11 +000090# XXX This module is deprecated as of Python 2.3, and should be removed
91# in the version that follows 2.3.
92import warnings as _warnings
93_warnings.warn("Please use the 're' module, not the 'pre' module",
94 DeprecationWarning)
Tim Peters863ac442002-04-16 01:38:40 +000095
Skip Montanaro0de65802001-02-15 22:15:14 +000096__all__ = ["match","search","sub","subn","split","findall","escape","compile",
97 "I","L","M","S","X","IGNORECASE","LOCALE","MULTILINE","DOTALL",
98 "VERBOSE","error"]
Skip Montanaroc62c81e2001-02-12 02:00:42 +000099
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000100#
101# First, the public part of the interface:
102#
103
104# pcre.error and re.error should be the same, since exceptions can be
105# raised from either module.
106
107# compilation flags
108
109I = IGNORECASE
110L = LOCALE
111M = MULTILINE
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000112S = DOTALL
113X = VERBOSE
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000114
115
116#
117#
118#
119
120_cache = {}
121_MAXCACHE = 20
122
123def _cachecompile(pattern, flags=0):
124 key = (pattern, flags)
125 try:
126 return _cache[key]
127 except KeyError:
128 pass
129 value = compile(pattern, flags)
130 if len(_cache) >= _MAXCACHE:
131 _cache.clear()
132 _cache[key] = value
133 return value
134
135def match(pattern, string, flags=0):
136 """match (pattern, string[, flags]) -> MatchObject or None
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000137
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000138 If zero or more characters at the beginning of string match the
139 regular expression pattern, return a corresponding MatchObject
140 instance. Return None if the string does not match the pattern;
141 note that this is different from a zero-length match.
142
143 Note: If you want to locate a match anywhere in string, use
144 search() instead.
145
146 """
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000147
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000148 return _cachecompile(pattern, flags).match(string)
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000149
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000150def search(pattern, string, flags=0):
151 """search (pattern, string[, flags]) -> MatchObject or None
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000152
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000153 Scan through string looking for a location where the regular
154 expression pattern produces a match, and return a corresponding
155 MatchObject instance. Return None if no position in the string
156 matches the pattern; note that this is different from finding a
157 zero-length match at some point in the string.
158
159 """
160 return _cachecompile(pattern, flags).search(string)
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000161
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000162def sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0):
163 """sub(pattern, repl, string[, count=0]) -> string
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000164
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000165 Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost
166 non-overlapping occurrences of pattern in string by the
167 replacement repl. If the pattern isn't found, string is returned
168 unchanged. repl can be a string or a function; if a function, it
169 is called for every non-overlapping occurrence of pattern. The
170 function takes a single match object argument, and returns the
171 replacement string.
172
173 The pattern may be a string or a regex object; if you need to
174 specify regular expression flags, you must use a regex object, or
175 use embedded modifiers in a pattern; e.g.
176 sub("(?i)b+", "x", "bbbb BBBB") returns 'x x'.
177
178 The optional argument count is the maximum number of pattern
179 occurrences to be replaced; count must be a non-negative integer,
180 and the default value of 0 means to replace all occurrences.
181
182 """
183 if type(pattern) == type(''):
184 pattern = _cachecompile(pattern)
185 return pattern.sub(repl, string, count)
186
187def subn(pattern, repl, string, count=0):
188 """subn(pattern, repl, string[, count=0]) -> (string, num substitutions)
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000189
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000190 Perform the same operation as sub(), but return a tuple
191 (new_string, number_of_subs_made).
192
193 """
194 if type(pattern) == type(''):
195 pattern = _cachecompile(pattern)
196 return pattern.subn(repl, string, count)
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000197
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000198def split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0):
199 """split(pattern, string[, maxsplit=0]) -> list of strings
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000200
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000201 Split string by the occurrences of pattern. If capturing
202 parentheses are used in pattern, then the text of all groups in
203 the pattern are also returned as part of the resulting list. If
204 maxsplit is nonzero, at most maxsplit splits occur, and the
205 remainder of the string is returned as the final element of the
206 list.
207
208 """
209 if type(pattern) == type(''):
210 pattern = _cachecompile(pattern)
211 return pattern.split(string, maxsplit)
212
213def findall(pattern, string):
214 """findall(pattern, string) -> list
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000215
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000216 Return a list of all non-overlapping matches of pattern in
217 string. If one or more groups are present in the pattern, return a
218 list of groups; this will be a list of tuples if the pattern has
219 more than one group. Empty matches are included in the result.
220
221 """
222 if type(pattern) == type(''):
223 pattern = _cachecompile(pattern)
224 return pattern.findall(string)
225
226def escape(pattern):
227 """escape(string) -> string
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000228
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000229 Return string with all non-alphanumerics backslashed; this is
230 useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may
231 have regular expression metacharacters in it.
232
233 """
234 result = list(pattern)
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000235 for i in range(len(pattern)):
236 char = pattern[i]
Eric S. Raymond6e025bc2001-02-10 00:22:33 +0000237 if not char.isalnum():
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000238 if char=='\000': result[i] = '\\000'
239 else: result[i] = '\\'+char
Eric S. Raymondec3bbde2001-02-09 09:39:08 +0000240 return ''.join(result)
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000241
242def compile(pattern, flags=0):
243 """compile(pattern[, flags]) -> RegexObject
244
245 Compile a regular expression pattern into a regular expression
246 object, which can be used for matching using its match() and
247 search() methods.
248
249 """
250 groupindex={}
251 code=pcre_compile(pattern, flags, groupindex)
252 return RegexObject(pattern, flags, code, groupindex)
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000253
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000254
255#
256# Class definitions
257#
258
259class RegexObject:
260 """Holds a compiled regular expression pattern.
261
262 Methods:
263 match Match the pattern to the beginning of a string.
264 search Search a string for the presence of the pattern.
265 sub Substitute occurrences of the pattern found in a string.
266 subn Same as sub, but also return the number of substitutions made.
267 split Split a string by the occurrences of the pattern.
268 findall Find all occurrences of the pattern in a string.
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000269
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000270 """
271
272 def __init__(self, pattern, flags, code, groupindex):
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000273 self.code = code
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000274 self.flags = flags
275 self.pattern = pattern
276 self.groupindex = groupindex
277
278 def search(self, string, pos=0, endpos=None):
279 """search(string[, pos][, endpos]) -> MatchObject or None
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000280
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000281 Scan through string looking for a location where this regular
282 expression produces a match, and return a corresponding
283 MatchObject instance. Return None if no position in the string
284 matches the pattern; note that this is different from finding
285 a zero-length match at some point in the string. The optional
286 pos and endpos parameters have the same meaning as for the
287 match() method.
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000288
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000289 """
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000290 if endpos is None or endpos>len(string):
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000291 endpos=len(string)
292 if endpos<pos: endpos=pos
293 regs = self.code.match(string, pos, endpos, 0)
294 if regs is None:
295 return None
296 self._num_regs=len(regs)
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000297
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000298 return MatchObject(self,
299 string,
300 pos, endpos,
301 regs)
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000302
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000303 def match(self, string, pos=0, endpos=None):
304 """match(string[, pos][, endpos]) -> MatchObject or None
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000305
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000306 If zero or more characters at the beginning of string match
307 this regular expression, return a corresponding MatchObject
308 instance. Return None if the string does not match the
309 pattern; note that this is different from a zero-length match.
310
311 Note: If you want to locate a match anywhere in string, use
312 search() instead.
313
314 The optional second parameter pos gives an index in the string
315 where the search is to start; it defaults to 0. This is not
316 completely equivalent to slicing the string; the '' pattern
317 character matches at the real beginning of the string and at
318 positions just after a newline, but not necessarily at the
319 index where the search is to start.
320
321 The optional parameter endpos limits how far the string will
322 be searched; it will be as if the string is endpos characters
323 long, so only the characters from pos to endpos will be
324 searched for a match.
325
326 """
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000327 if endpos is None or endpos>len(string):
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000328 endpos=len(string)
329 if endpos<pos: endpos=pos
330 regs = self.code.match(string, pos, endpos, ANCHORED)
331 if regs is None:
332 return None
333 self._num_regs=len(regs)
334 return MatchObject(self,
335 string,
336 pos, endpos,
337 regs)
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000338
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000339 def sub(self, repl, string, count=0):
340 """sub(repl, string[, count=0]) -> string
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000341
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000342 Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost
343 non-overlapping occurrences of the compiled pattern in string
344 by the replacement repl. If the pattern isn't found, string is
345 returned unchanged.
346
347 Identical to the sub() function, using the compiled pattern.
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000348
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000349 """
350 return self.subn(repl, string, count)[0]
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000351
352 def subn(self, repl, source, count=0):
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000353 """subn(repl, string[, count=0]) -> tuple
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000354
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000355 Perform the same operation as sub(), but return a tuple
356 (new_string, number_of_subs_made).
357
358 """
359 if count < 0:
360 raise error, "negative substitution count"
361 if count == 0:
362 count = sys.maxint
363 n = 0 # Number of matches
364 pos = 0 # Where to start searching
365 lastmatch = -1 # End of last match
366 results = [] # Substrings making up the result
367 end = len(source)
368
369 if type(repl) is type(''):
370 # See if repl contains group references
371 try:
372 repl = pcre_expand(_Dummy, repl)
Fred Drake31e18292001-05-11 19:20:17 +0000373 except error:
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000374 m = MatchObject(self, source, 0, end, [])
375 repl = lambda m, repl=repl, expand=pcre_expand: expand(m, repl)
376 else:
377 m = None
378 else:
379 m = MatchObject(self, source, 0, end, [])
380
381 match = self.code.match
382 append = results.append
383 while n < count and pos <= end:
384 regs = match(source, pos, end, 0)
385 if not regs:
386 break
387 self._num_regs = len(regs)
388 i, j = regs[0]
389 if i == j == lastmatch:
390 # Empty match adjacent to previous match
391 pos = pos + 1
392 append(source[lastmatch:pos])
393 continue
394 if pos < i:
395 append(source[pos:i])
396 if m:
397 m.pos = pos
398 m.regs = regs
399 append(repl(m))
400 else:
401 append(repl)
402 pos = lastmatch = j
403 if i == j:
404 # Last match was empty; don't try here again
405 pos = pos + 1
406 append(source[lastmatch:pos])
407 n = n + 1
408 append(source[pos:])
Eric S. Raymondec3bbde2001-02-09 09:39:08 +0000409 return (''.join(results), n)
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000410
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000411 def split(self, source, maxsplit=0):
412 """split(source[, maxsplit=0]) -> list of strings
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000413
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000414 Split string by the occurrences of the compiled pattern. If
415 capturing parentheses are used in the pattern, then the text
416 of all groups in the pattern are also returned as part of the
417 resulting list. If maxsplit is nonzero, at most maxsplit
418 splits occur, and the remainder of the string is returned as
419 the final element of the list.
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000420
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000421 """
422 if maxsplit < 0:
423 raise error, "negative split count"
424 if maxsplit == 0:
425 maxsplit = sys.maxint
426 n = 0
427 pos = 0
428 lastmatch = 0
429 results = []
430 end = len(source)
431 match = self.code.match
432 append = results.append
433 while n < maxsplit:
434 regs = match(source, pos, end, 0)
435 if not regs:
436 break
437 i, j = regs[0]
438 if i == j:
439 # Empty match
440 if pos >= end:
441 break
442 pos = pos+1
443 continue
444 append(source[lastmatch:i])
445 rest = regs[1:]
446 if rest:
447 for a, b in rest:
448 if a == -1 or b == -1:
449 group = None
450 else:
451 group = source[a:b]
452 append(group)
453 pos = lastmatch = j
454 n = n + 1
455 append(source[lastmatch:])
456 return results
457
458 def findall(self, source):
459 """findall(source) -> list
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000460
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000461 Return a list of all non-overlapping matches of the compiled
462 pattern in string. If one or more groups are present in the
463 pattern, return a list of groups; this will be a list of
464 tuples if the pattern has more than one group. Empty matches
465 are included in the result.
466
467 """
468 pos = 0
469 end = len(source)
470 results = []
471 match = self.code.match
472 append = results.append
473 while pos <= end:
474 regs = match(source, pos, end, 0)
475 if not regs:
476 break
477 i, j = regs[0]
478 rest = regs[1:]
479 if not rest:
480 gr = source[i:j]
481 elif len(rest) == 1:
482 a, b = rest[0]
483 gr = source[a:b]
484 else:
485 gr = []
486 for (a, b) in rest:
487 gr.append(source[a:b])
488 gr = tuple(gr)
489 append(gr)
490 pos = max(j, pos+1)
491 return results
492
493 # The following 3 functions were contributed by Mike Fletcher, and
494 # allow pickling and unpickling of RegexObject instances.
495 def __getinitargs__(self):
496 return (None,None,None,None) # any 4 elements, to work around
497 # problems with the
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000498 # pickle/cPickle modules not yet
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000499 # ignoring the __init__ function
500 def __getstate__(self):
501 return self.pattern, self.flags, self.groupindex
502 def __setstate__(self, statetuple):
503 self.pattern = statetuple[0]
504 self.flags = statetuple[1]
505 self.groupindex = statetuple[2]
506 self.code = apply(pcre_compile, statetuple)
507
508class _Dummy:
509 # Dummy class used by _subn_string(). Has 'group' to avoid core dump.
510 group = None
511
512class MatchObject:
513 """Holds a compiled regular expression pattern.
514
515 Methods:
516 start Return the index of the start of a matched substring.
517 end Return the index of the end of a matched substring.
518 span Return a tuple of (start, end) of a matched substring.
519 groups Return a tuple of all the subgroups of the match.
520 group Return one or more subgroups of the match.
521 groupdict Return a dictionary of all the named subgroups of the match.
522
523 """
524
525 def __init__(self, re, string, pos, endpos, regs):
526 self.re = re
527 self.string = string
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000528 self.pos = pos
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000529 self.endpos = endpos
530 self.regs = regs
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000531
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000532 def start(self, g = 0):
533 """start([group=0]) -> int or None
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000534
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000535 Return the index of the start of the substring matched by
536 group; group defaults to zero (meaning the whole matched
Andrew M. Kuchling2cb176f2000-09-04 03:19:48 +0000537 substring). Return -1 if group exists but did not contribute
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000538 to the match.
539
540 """
541 if type(g) == type(''):
542 try:
543 g = self.re.groupindex[g]
544 except (KeyError, TypeError):
545 raise IndexError, 'group %s is undefined' % `g`
546 return self.regs[g][0]
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000547
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000548 def end(self, g = 0):
549 """end([group=0]) -> int or None
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000550
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000551 Return the indices of the end of the substring matched by
552 group; group defaults to zero (meaning the whole matched
Andrew M. Kuchling2cb176f2000-09-04 03:19:48 +0000553 substring). Return -1 if group exists but did not contribute
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000554 to the match.
555
556 """
557 if type(g) == type(''):
558 try:
559 g = self.re.groupindex[g]
560 except (KeyError, TypeError):
561 raise IndexError, 'group %s is undefined' % `g`
562 return self.regs[g][1]
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000563
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000564 def span(self, g = 0):
565 """span([group=0]) -> tuple
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000566
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000567 Return the 2-tuple (m.start(group), m.end(group)). Note that
Andrew M. Kuchling2cb176f2000-09-04 03:19:48 +0000568 if group did not contribute to the match, this is (-1,
569 -1). Group defaults to zero (meaning the whole matched
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000570 substring).
571
572 """
573 if type(g) == type(''):
574 try:
575 g = self.re.groupindex[g]
576 except (KeyError, TypeError):
577 raise IndexError, 'group %s is undefined' % `g`
578 return self.regs[g]
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000579
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000580 def groups(self, default=None):
581 """groups([default=None]) -> tuple
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000582
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000583 Return a tuple containing all the subgroups of the match, from
584 1 up to however many groups are in the pattern. The default
585 argument is used for groups that did not participate in the
586 match.
587
588 """
589 result = []
590 for g in range(1, self.re._num_regs):
591 a, b = self.regs[g]
592 if a == -1 or b == -1:
593 result.append(default)
594 else:
595 result.append(self.string[a:b])
596 return tuple(result)
597
598 def group(self, *groups):
599 """group([group1, group2, ...]) -> string or tuple
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000600
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000601 Return one or more subgroups of the match. If there is a
602 single argument, the result is a single string; if there are
603 multiple arguments, the result is a tuple with one item per
604 argument. Without arguments, group1 defaults to zero (i.e. the
605 whole match is returned). If a groupN argument is zero, the
606 corresponding return value is the entire matching string; if
607 it is in the inclusive range [1..99], it is the string
608 matching the the corresponding parenthesized group. If a group
609 number is negative or larger than the number of groups defined
610 in the pattern, an IndexError exception is raised. If a group
611 is contained in a part of the pattern that did not match, the
612 corresponding result is None. If a group is contained in a
613 part of the pattern that matched multiple times, the last
614 match is returned.
615
616 If the regular expression uses the (?P<name>...) syntax, the
617 groupN arguments may also be strings identifying groups by
618 their group name. If a string argument is not used as a group
619 name in the pattern, an IndexError exception is raised.
620
621 """
622 if len(groups) == 0:
623 groups = (0,)
624 result = []
625 for g in groups:
626 if type(g) == type(''):
627 try:
628 g = self.re.groupindex[g]
629 except (KeyError, TypeError):
630 raise IndexError, 'group %s is undefined' % `g`
631 if g >= len(self.regs):
632 raise IndexError, 'group %s is undefined' % `g`
633 a, b = self.regs[g]
634 if a == -1 or b == -1:
635 result.append(None)
636 else:
637 result.append(self.string[a:b])
638 if len(result) > 1:
639 return tuple(result)
640 elif len(result) == 1:
641 return result[0]
642 else:
643 return ()
644
645 def groupdict(self, default=None):
646 """groupdict([default=None]) -> dictionary
Tim Peters2344fae2001-01-15 00:50:52 +0000647
Guido van Rossum2850d182000-06-30 16:25:20 +0000648 Return a dictionary containing all the named subgroups of the
649 match, keyed by the subgroup name. The default argument is
650 used for groups that did not participate in the match.
651
652 """
653 dict = {}
654 for name, index in self.re.groupindex.items():
655 a, b = self.regs[index]
656 if a == -1 or b == -1:
657 dict[name] = default
658 else:
659 dict[name] = self.string[a:b]
660 return dict