reading-notes

Automation

match()
- returns a match object if the text matches the pattern. Otherwise, it returns None.
search()
- you scan through the given string/sequence, looking for the first location where the regular expression produces a match. It returns a corresponding match object if found, else returns None if no position in the string matches the pattern. Note that None is different from finding a zero-length match at some point in the string.
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Note: The match() function checks for a match only at the beginning of the string (by default), whereas the search() function checks for a match anywhere in the string.
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findall(pattern, string, flags=0)
- Finds all the possible matches in the entire sequence and returns them as a list of strings. Each returned string represents one match.
split(string, maxsplit=0)
- This splits the strings wherever the pattern matches and returns a list. If the optional argument maxsplit is nonzero, then the maximum ‘maxsplit’ number of splits are performed.
start() - Returns the starting index of the match.
end() - Returns the index where the match ends.
span() - Return a tuple containing the (start, end) positions of the match.

The shutil module includes high-level file operations such as copying and archiving.