Regular expression matching anything greater than eight letters in length, in Python

Question

Despite attempts to master grep and related GNU software, I haven\'t come close to mastering regular expressions. I do like them, but I find them a bit of an eyesore all the sam

Answer 1

You don't need regex for this.

result = [w for w in vocab if len(w) >= 8]

but if regex must be used:

rx = re.compile('^.{8,}$')
#                  ^^^^ {8,} means 8 or more.
result = [w for w in vocab if rx.match(w)]

See http://www.regular-expressions.info/repeat.html for detail on the {a,b} syntax.