Regex match with Python re from end of line

Question

I'm matching the last word 'City' or 'City City'.

Work's on regex101.com ( https://regex101.com/r/7F6Jao/1 ) but not in Python.

folder = i.find ( 'folder' ).text
# Top > Continent > Country > City
    country = re.match ( r'\s+\S*$', folder )
    print ( folder )

Output I get 'None'.

Answer 1

You should be using re.search here, since you don't want your regex pattern to be anchored to the start of the input (which is the default behavior for re.match ):

text = "Top > Continent > Country > City"
p = re.compile("\\b\\S*$")
matches = p.search(text)
if matches:
    print("Found a match: " + matches.group(0))
else:
    print("no match")

This prints:

Found a match: City

EDIT:

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

In addition for the scenario (for City names with 2 words):

# Top > Continent > Country > City City 
p = re.compile("[^ ]+\\s+[^ ]+$") 

Output:

City City 
> City 

Seems like cannot exclude the last '>'.

Maybe match from the left capture everything after 3 '>' plus a space?