Python regex for string parse

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I'm trying to learn regex for python and try to get token and session values in the string. I get as in the below but is there a better way from here to get token and session values? here is my code also string:

    a ={}
    import re
    b ="token: d9706bc7-c599-4c99-b55e-bc49cba4bc0d\nsession:NjA5MWE2MGQtMTgxNS00NWY5LTkwYWQtM2Q0MWE3OTFlNTY0\n"
    a=re.findall("([A-Za-z]+[\d@]+[\w@]*|[\d@]+[A-Za-z]+[\w@])",b)

    print(a[5]) #this is for session value "NjA5MWE2MGQtMTgxNS00NWY5LTkwYWQtM2Q0MWE3OTFlNTY0"
    print ([a[0:5]]) #this is for getting token as array d9706bc7 c599 4c99 b55e bc49cba4bc0d

How can I get the token value with - as in the below:
"d9706bc7-c599-4c99-b55e-bc49cba4bc0d"

dmitryro · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-01 03:22:17Z

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You can use a very simple regexp to get it:

a=re.findall("[a-zA-Z0-9-]+", b)
print(a[1]) # Outputs d9706bc7-c599-4c99-b55e-bc49cba4bc0d

Even shorter, will give you same result:

a=re.findall("[\w-]+", b)
print(a[1]) # Outputs d9706bc7-c599-4c99-b55e-bc49cba4bc0d

edited May 1, 2020 at 3:22

answered May 1, 2020 at 3:16

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laura Over a year ago

thank you :) @dmitryro so I have to write a new regex to take session value? is there any shorter way to get token and session values ?

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