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regex for only numbers in string?

I can't find the regex for strings containing only whitespaces or integers. The string is an input from user on keyboard. It can contain everything but \n (but it doesn't matter I guess), but we can focus on ASCII since it's supposed to be English sentences Here are some examples:

OK:

'1'
'2 3'
'   3 56 '
'8888888       333'
' 039'

not OK:

'a'
'4 e'
'874 1231 88 qqqq 99'
' shf ie sh f 8'

I have this which finds the numbers:

t = [int(i) for i in re.findall(r'\b\d+\b', text)]

But I can't get the regex. My regex is currently re.match(r'(\b\d+\b)+', text) but it doesn't work.

Solution 
  • >>> re.match(r'^([\s\d]+)$', text)

    You need to put start (^) and end of line ($) characters in. Otherwise, the part of the string with the characters in will match, resulting in false positive matches