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Asked: 2026-06-08T22:51:06+00:00

Example If the user searches car I would like the output to look like

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If the user searches “car” I would like the output to look like

Find your favorite car today, car sale for next 2 days.

Notice that car is bolded. Google does it:
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What’s the best way to go about doing this in Python? The bolding is in HTML.

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  1. Editorial Team
    >>> the_string = "New Cars, Used Cars, Car Reviews, Car Finance Advice - Cars.com"
>>> re.sub(r'(car)', r'<b>\1</b>', the_string, flags=re.I)
'New <b>Car</b>s, Used <b>Car</b>s, <b>Car</b> Reviews, <b>Car</b> Finance Advice - <b>Car</b>s.com'

    It’s a little bit tricky to figure out exactly what should count as an instance of “car”, though; this would make “cartoon” and so on. You could try \b(cars?)\b for this specific phrase; in general, you might want to use a stemmer.

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