Question

I am looking to create a Python regular expression to match a specific pattern: The pattern always starts with any upper or lowercase letter, may have any number of letters or numbers after it, and always ends in a period (.).

For example, the pattern would match the line that has the question label (e.g: Q42.) in this HTML code:

<p>Q42. Which of the following newspapers, if any, do you read on a regular 
   basis? Please select all that apply:</p>
<p>NY Times</p>
<p>Chicago Tribune</p>

EDIT:
I’ve tried [a-zA-Z]\W*\.

What that says to me is any letter upper or lower followed by any number or letters upper or lower or numbers followed by a period.

EDIT:

I am just trying to test weather the entire line contains these characters or not. Only looking for a True or False.

Answer 1

Close:

\b[a-zA-Z]\w*\.

should do it.

\W means “any character except alphanumerics, so you need the opposite, \w.

\b is a word boundary, ensuring that we start the match at the beginning of a word.