how to match whitespace and alphanumeric characters in python
import retest = "this matches"match = re.match('(\w+\s\w+)', test)print match.groups()returns
('this matches',)
I case there are more than one space use the following regexp:
'([\w\s]+)'example
In [3]: import reIn [4]: test = "this matches and this" ...: match = re.match('([\w\s]+)', test) ...: print match.groups() ...: ('this matches and this',)