how do i search lboth length, letters numbers and symbols:@#$% with regex?

what is wrong here?

import re


pattern = re.compile ('^\w@#$%{8,}')

password = '12345abcd@#$%'

x = pattern.search(password)

print (x)

print (len(password))

>Solution :

You didn’t escape the $ which has a special meaning in a regular expression and didn’t put the allowed characters in square brackets to allow any of them.

This: ^[\w@#\$%]{8,} is the modified version of the regex which matches the password.

I suggest you check your regular expressions here: https://regex101.com/r/ldvJLf/1 . This site explains in detail the meaning of all single elements of the regular expression, so you can directly see what is wrong if things doesn’t work as you expected.