Extract text from regular expression?

Question

I am trying to get the results of some consistent text in a regular expression, but it does not seem to work. Does anyone know what could be wrong?

import re
text = "I want to match anything in <angle brackets>"
match = re.search("\<(?P<brackets>[^\>]+)>", text)
if match:
    print (match.group('brackets'))

This does not print anything, i.e. no match found.

Answer 1

This is indeed a very common mistake - it seems you use re.matchit when you want to use it re.search. re.matchmatches only the beginning of the given text, while it re.searchchecks the whole thing.

import re
text = "I want to match anything in <angle brackets>"
match = re.search("\<(?P<brackets>[^\>]+)>", text)
if match:
    print (match.group('brackets'))

Output:

'angle brackets'

Answer 2

@Tom Jacques , , , , , . :

import re
text = "I want to match anything in <angle brackets>"
match = re.search("\<(?P<brackets>.*)\>",text)
if match:
    print (match.group('brackets'))

[^ .*) text re.search().

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