Having issue with a complicated regex python

Question

 s = {"densityThreshold": 2.4543288981124E+14}

I was thinking something like this

 re.search(".[A-Za-z]*.:\s\d\.\d+..\d+", k) or if re.search(".[A-Za-z]*.:\s\d\.\w+.\d+", k):

but neither seem to work..

I need to group "densityThreshold" and "2.4543288981124E+14" to create another dictionary.. I would usually use group() but i m stuck at search!

Sure, but there's a case to be made that this is a [classical abuse of regexes](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) (<- linked). — Dolda2000, Nov 12 '14 at 02:51
For the record, however, your example works perfectly fine when I try it. What's the actual problem? — Dolda2000, Nov 12 '14 at 02:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '14 at 04:44

x='s = {"densityThreshold": 2.4543288981124E+14}'
k=re.search(".[A-Za-z]*.:\s\d\.\d+..\d+", x)
print k.group()

You can do this if you want the whole thing in one group.Or if you want separately use

x='s = {"densityThreshold": 2.4543288981124E+14
k=re.search("(.[A-Za-z]*.):(\s\d\.\d+..\d+)", x)
print k.groups()

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