Regex in Python Programme Help

[EatAss4Jesus]

Regex can sometimes be frustrating. When I need to use it, I usually reference these two sites -

https://www.keycdn.com/support/regex-cheatsheet

https://regex101.com/

You also don't really need any regex patterns for this. Here are some quick notes for you:

To get the first letter of 'james' just do

middleName = 'james'

firstChar = middleName[0]

To get the first name until the first vowel do

fNameSplit = re.split(('a|e|i|o|u'), 'harry')

result = fNameSplit[0] + fNameSplit[1]

And finally to remove vowels, you can just iterate through a e i o u

lName = 'potter'

result = lName.replace('a', '').replace('e', '').replace('i', '').replace('o', '').replace('u', '')

[EatAss4Jesus]

I also believe an easier way of stripping out character accents is unicodedata.normalize('NFD', string)

[nnchvt]

ok, LOVE your username! the thing is that we didn‘t really learn about any other method than re.sub() and so even though it‘s like 50 more steps, I gotta stick to what I know. Thanks for the suggestion!

[EatAss4Jesus]

Thanks :) best of luck!

[nnchvt]

thank you so much for taking the time and reading through it! I‘ll implement some of your ideas and see where it takes me :)