Question

I am trying to find a range of numbers within a string. The different ranges are listed below. How can I search a specific range of number?

Ensure the first number is between [1, 17], the second between [1, 37], etc.

import re   
Test1 = "This is a test 5-9-81-15"

A1 = range(1, 17)
A2 = range(1, 37)
A3 = range(76, 89)
A4 = range(13, 27)

x = re.search("{0}-{1}-{2}-{3}".format(A1, A2, A3, A4), Test1) 

if x: 
    print ("Match")
else:
    print ("No Match")

Answer 1

If you can get a string of just the numbers, here is how you might check to see if it fits your requirement:

>>> s = "5-9-81-15"          # String to parse
>>> lb = [1, 1, 76, 13]      # List of lower bounds
>>> ub = [17, 37, 89, 27]    # List of upper bounds

>>> vals = [int(x) for x in s.split('-')]   # vals contains [5, 9, 81, 15]

>>> all(x > L and x < U for x, L, U in zip(vals, lb, ub))    # does the check
True

An example that fails:

>>> s = "5-9-90-15"    # fails with the third number
>>> vals = [int(x) for x in s.split('-')]
>>> all(x > L and x < U for x, L, U in zip(vals, lb, ub))
False

Regular expressions is the right tool if you need to extract the digit sequence from a larger string that has other text/characters in it.