Backslashes Are Complicated
Explore the complexities of using backslashes in Python regular expressions. Understand how backslashes serve multiple roles, how escaping works, and how using raw strings with the letter r can make regex patterns clearer and easier to write. Gain a foundation to confidently apply regex in Python.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Overview of backlashes
Backslashes are a bit complicated in Python’s regular expressions. The reason is that regular expressions use backslashes to indicate special forms or to allow a special character to be searched for instead of invoking it, such as when we want to search ...