curly braces –
Curly braces matches exactly the specified number of occurrences.
P{2} will match P exactly two times. P{2,3} will match P at least 2 times but not more than 3 times.
Let’s say you want to find all the phone numbers from a text.
In [1]: import re
In [2]: re.findall('\+\d{2}-\d{10}', '+91-7239312893 +91-3754296102')
Out[2]: ['+91-7239312893', '+91-3754296102']The \+ say that the numbers starts with a plus character. As plus is a special character in regex we escaped it with a backslash to remove the special meaning from it. \d matches any digit character between 0 to 9, and \d{2} matches with any two digits. Then we have a hyphen followed by \d{10} which matches exactly 10 digits.
In [3]: re.findall('hello{2,3}', 'hello')
Out[3]: []
In [4]: re.findall('hello{2,3}', 'helloo')
Out[4]: ['helloo']
In [5]: re.findall('hello{2,3}', 'helloooo')
Out[5]: ['hellooo']The pattern ‘hello{2,3}’ will match any hello which has os between 2 to 3 at the end. The first example does not have at least 2 os that is why we got an empty list.