Regular expression to match a dot

Question

Was wondering what the best way is to match \"test.this\" from \"blah blah blah test.this@gmail.com blah blah\" is? Using Python.

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Answer 1

"In the default mode, Dot (.) matches any character except a newline. If the DOTALL flag has been specified, this matches any character including a newline." (python Doc)

So, if you want to evaluate dot literaly, I think you should put it in square brackets:

>>> p = re.compile(r'\b(\w+[.]\w+)')
>>> resp = p.search("blah blah blah test.this@gmail.com blah blah")
>>> resp.group()
'test.this'