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Anish Chapagain
Anish Chapagain
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Anish Chapagain

Anish Chapagain is a software engineer with a passion for data science, its processes, and Python programming, which began around 2007. He has been working with web scraping and analysis-related tasks for more than 5 years, and is currently pursuing freelance projects in the web scraping domain. Anish previously worked as a trainer, web/software developer, and as a banker, where he was exposed to data and gained further insights into topics including data analysis, visualization, data mining, information processing, and knowledge discovery. He has an MSc in computer systems from Bangor University (University of Wales), United Kingdom, and an Executive MBA from Himalayan Whitehouse International College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Regex with Python

Python programming is known for its simple, readable, reusable, and short code. Python is also popular because of its scientific computing and text computation features (natural language processing (NLP), sentiment analysis (SA), and many more). Regex is also one of the core powers of Python as re (the regex library) is provided as a system or built-in library that is available with Python installation.

Let’s dive deep into re and have a look at some of the features using code. For this example, we will use the following famous quote from Sadhguru (available at https://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/wisdom/type/quotes):

If you do not turn against yourself, the Human Potential is limitless.

We have defined a Python variable named quote that contains the preceding quote as its value:

quote="If you do not turn against yourself, the Human Potential is limitless"

In the coming sections, we will find words that are at least three characters long...

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Anish Chapagain

Anish Chapagain is a software engineer with a passion for data science, its processes, and Python programming, which began around 2007. He has been working with web scraping and analysis-related tasks for more than 5 years, and is currently pursuing freelance projects in the web scraping domain. Anish previously worked as a trainer, web/software developer, and as a banker, where he was exposed to data and gained further insights into topics including data analysis, visualization, data mining, information processing, and knowledge discovery. He has an MSc in computer systems from Bangor University (University of Wales), United Kingdom, and an Executive MBA from Himalayan Whitehouse International College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
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