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问题描述

我有一个具有特定格式的句子。

<subject> <action> <object> @ <price> ... // The sentence can continue

我想从句子中提取这些值。

约束:

例子:

Hi there, Bob sold apples @2.0 dollars each

期望的输出:

Subject: Bob
Action: sold
Object: apples
Price: 2.0

目前,我通过以下方式以天真的方式做到这一点:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

sentence = "Hi there, alice sold apples @2.0 dollars each"

sentence = sentence.lower()

if 'alice' in sentence or 'bob' in sentence:

    s_list = sentence.split(" ")
    s_idx = -1

    if 'bob' in sentence:
        s_idx = s_list.index('bob')
    elif 'alice' in sentence:
        s_idx = s_list.index('alice')

    if s_idx > -1:
        Subject = s_list[s_idx]
        Action = s_list[s_idx+1]
        Object = s_list[s_idx+2]  #more if/else to validate Object contraints
        Price = s_list[s_idx+3]   #more if/else to extract 2.0 if we get @2.0 

    print("Subject: {}, Action: {}, Object: {}, Price: {}".format(Subject, Action, Object, Price))

我怎样才能做得更好?可能使用re

标签: pythonpython-3.xregexpattern-matching

解决方案


您可以为每个元素使用带有命名捕获组的正则表达式:

import re

sentence = "Hi there, alice sold apples @2.0 dollars each"

values = re.search('(?P<subject>bob|alice)\s+(?P<action>bought|sold)\s+(?P<object>[A-Za-z]{1,7})\s+@\s*(?P<price>\d+(?:\.\d+)?)', sentence)
if values:
    Subject = values['subject']
    Action = values['action']
    Object = values['object']
    Price = values['price']
    print("Subject: {}, Action: {}, Object: {}, Price: {}".format(Subject, Action, Object, Price))   

这将输出

Subject: alice, Action: sold, Object: apples, Price: 2.0

请注意,您可能希望提供re.I标志以re.search允许匹配bobBob(或Sold或等);sold在这种情况下,您可以[A-Za-z]object捕获组中替换为[a-z].


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