I came across the website rubular.com, and their example regex was :
(?<month>\d{1,2})\/(?<day>\d{1,2})\/(?<year>\d{4})
where the months, day, and year encased in the < > tags each group with that name.
I'm wondering if there's a way to do that in Python since I couldn't find it in the documentation.
You do that using (?P<group_name>...):
(?P<month>\d{1,2})\/(?P<day>\d{1,2})\/(?P<year>\d{4})
See documentation
To do so in Python, you would prefix the named group with the letter 'P' like so:
import re
match = re.search('(?P<month>\d{1,2})\/(?P<day>\d{1,2})\/(?P<year>\d{4})', '01/02/2000')
print match.group('day')
print match.group('month')
print match.group('year')
The documentation page for Regex doesn't clearly highlight it, but you are looking for the section on
(?P<name>...)
You can use this:
(?P<month>\d{1,2})\/(?P<day>\d{1,2})\/(?P<year>\d{4})
