Full Example (Python 3):
For Python 2.x look into Note below
import re
mylist = ["dog", "cat", "wildcat", "thundercat", "cow", "hooo"]
r = re.compile(".*cat")
newlist = list(filter(r.match, mylist)) # Read Note
print(newlist)
Prints:
['cat', 'wildcat', 'thundercat']
Note:
For Python 2.x developers, filter
returns a list already. In Python 3.x filter
was changed to return an iterator so it has to be converted to list
(in order to see it printed out nicely).
To do so without compiling the Regex first, use a lambda
function - for example:
from re import match
values = ['123', '234', 'foobar']
filtered_values = list(filter(lambda v: match('^\d+$', v), values))
print(filtered_values)
Returns:
['123', '234']
filter()
just takes a callable
as it's first argument, and returns a list where that callable returned a 'truthy' value.
Source: Stackoverflow.com