python regex for multiple words not matching

Question

So I have a regex like this -

[\w\s.<>/]* is [boom|box|cat]+[\w\s<>/]+[fun|lame][\w\s<>./]*

but this matches

<something>things/something> is brah <HELLO>loc</HELLO> suburb.

why?

Answer 1

[...] is a character class, it will match any individual character between the brackets, ie your [boom|box|cat] is identical to [abcotx|] . You want (boom|box|cat) and (fun|lame) .