Regular Expression (RegEx) in Python: The Basics

Author(s): Hrishikesh Patel

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Consider you have a lot of text data, and you want to extract meaningful information. For example, you might want to extract hashtags, @mentions, URLs, etc. from any tweets. What’s the best way to do it? You got it right — it is to use a regular expression or regex. The regex is a sequence of characters that form a pattern that matches the text. We can define a pattern for hashtags, and it can be used to match any hashtags in the given tweets.

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