Regex Problem Group Name Redefinition?

Question

So I have this regex:

(^(\\s+)?(?P(\\w)(\\d{7}))((01f\\.foo)|(\\.bar|\\.goo\\.moo\\.roo))$|(^(\\s+)?(?PR1_\\d{6}_\\d{6}_)((01f\\.foo)|(\         


        

Answer 1

The following answer deals with how to make the above regex work in Python3.

Since the re2 module as suggested by Max would not work in Python3, because of the NameError: basestring. Another alternative to this is the regex module.

regex module is just an enhanced version of re with extra added features. This module also allows to have same group names in the regex.

You can install it via:

sudo pip install regex

And if you have already been using re or re2 in your program. Just do the following to import regex module

import regex as re