Python regex to match words not having dot

Question

I want to accept only those strings having the pattern \'wild.flower\', \'pink.flower\',...i.e any word preceding \'.flower\', but the word should not contain dot. For example,

Answer 1

To match any character except a newline or a dot you could use a negated character class [^.\r\n]+ and repeat that one or more times and use anchors to assert the start ^ and the end $ of the line.

^[^.\r\n]+\.flower$

Or you could specify in a character class which characters you would allow to match followed by a dot \. and flower.

^[a-z0-9]+\.flower$