Python: Can I use on the regular expression

Question

I tried to do some work on with regular expression but, I had difficulties as there are lots of list of cars. The line of code will longer if I used the below code

car_name = re.compile(r'.*(?=\n\nBMW I3\s*?\n)')
car_name = re.compile(r'.*(?=\n\nBMW I8\s*?\n)')
car_name = re.compile(r'.*(?=\n\nBMW 320d\s*?\n)')
...

So, I created a CSV file that contains a car list and get the list as following code:

car_df = pd.read_csv("my path")

I wonder how can I use the csv file applied to the regular expression Is ther any way to bring a list of cars and apply on the regular expression?

Answer 1

Try this :

import re

bmw_cars = []
for car in car_list:
   if re.search('.*BMW.*',car):
      bmw_cars.append(car)