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Python

what is word boundary ?

please explain me word boundary briefly which is in pythons sets(\b).why we use it.what is its functions.where we can use it.please explain all of these things

1 Answer

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

From the Teacher's Notes:

\b - matches word boundaries. What's a word boundary? It's the edges of word, defined by white space or the edges of the string. \B - matches anything that isn't the edges of a word.

And the documentation is really great, too.