Title: Match Any Character
Slug: match_any_character
Summary: Match Any Character
Date: 2016-05-01 12:00
Category: Regex
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Based on: Regular Expressions Cookbook

Preliminaries



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# Load regex package
import re

Create some text



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# Create a variable containing a text string
text = 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy brown bear.'

Apply regex



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# Find anything with a 'T' and then the next two characters
re.findall(r'T..', text)









    Out[6]:





['The']