[Python] Do regular expressions from the re module support word boundaries (\b)?

Discussão em 'Python' iniciado por Stack, Maio 7, 2025.

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    While trying to learn a little more about regular expressions, a tutorial suggested that you can use the \b to match a word boundary. However, the following snippet in the Python interpreter does not work as expected:

    >>> x = 'one two three'
    >>> y = re.search("\btwo\b", x)


    It should have been a match object if anything was matched, but it is None.

    Is the \b expression not supported in Python or am I using it wrong?

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