Browse Teach Curate

Substituting Text with re.sub in Python

re.sub replaces every match of a pattern with a replacement string, and the replacement can reference capture groups. It is the regex operation that changes data rather than just finding it, which makes it the workhorse of text normalisation.

jeremy Video

Replace text patterns using re.sub() in Python

The core principle involves utilizing regular expression patterns to define and identify specific substrings within a target string for substitution operations. This mechanism relies on formal syntax…