{"id":13527,"date":"2024-03-15T07:19:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T07:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-is-the-group-function-used-in-python\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:43:13","slug":"how-is-the-group-function-used-in-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-is-the-group-function-used-in-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Python Regex group() Method Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Python, group() is one of the methods in regular expressions that is used to return the matching string from the regular expression pattern.<\/p>\n<p>There are two ways to use the group() method.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&#8211; team()<\/li>\n<li>index within a group<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here is an example using the group() method:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> re\r\n\r\npattern = <span class=\"hljs-string\">r\"(\\d{3})-(\\d{3}-\\d{4})\"<\/span>\r\nphone_number = <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"123-456-7890\"<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">match<\/span> = re.search(pattern, phone_number)\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">match<\/span>:\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u8fd4\u56de\u6574\u4e2a\u5339\u914d\u7684\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">match<\/span>.group())  <span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u8f93\u51fa\uff1a123-456-7890<\/span>\r\n    \r\n    <span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u8fd4\u56de\u7b2c\u4e00\u4e2a\u5206\u7ec4\uff08\u5206\u7ec4\u53f7\u4e3a1\uff09\u5339\u914d\u7684\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">match<\/span>.group(<span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>))  <span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u8f93\u51fa\uff1a123<\/span>\r\n    \r\n    <span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u8fd4\u56de\u7b2c\u4e8c\u4e2a\u5206\u7ec4\uff08\u5206\u7ec4\u53f7\u4e3a2\uff09\u5339\u914d\u7684\u5b57\u7b26\u4e32<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">match<\/span>.group(<span class=\"hljs-number\">2<\/span>))  <span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u8f93\u51fa\uff1a456-7890<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Please note that if no content is matched when using the group() method, an AttributeError exception will be thrown. 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