Practical Data Wrangling

Matching whitespace

Using \s at any point in the pattern string matches a whitespace character. This is more general then the space character, as it applies to tabs and newline characters:

....a_space_b = re.compile("a\sb")if a_space_b.search("a b"):    print("'a b' is a match!")if a_space_b.search("1234 a b 1234"):    print("'1234 a b 1234' is a match")if a_space_b.search("ab"):    print("'1234 a b 1234' is a match")