Python -simple re question

Birdman48 · 10-25-2012, 08:03 AM

Hi. I'm messing with regular expressions in python and am trying to match five-letter words in a file. Here's my code:

Code:

wordlist = re.findall(r'\s\w{5}\s', text)

Trouble is it also matches the newline characters. I want a list of five letter words - no newlines. I will look around the docs some more but I would appreciate a quick answer if you have the time. Thanks.

Berhanie · 10-25-2012, 08:18 AM

this is better:

Code:

re.findall(r'\b\w{5}\b', text)