Python meta characters

Question

pattern1 = r"[^A-Z]"
pattern2 = r"^gray"

I don’t understand why these " ^ " mean different.
Is this because one of them is used inside [] ?
Is there any other meta characters used like this?
Please help me.

Answer 1

Yep. When it's inside the square brackets, it'll match for not having what follows carate( ^ ) in the given string. In this case it'll match everything other than A-Z characters bcz of "[^A-Z]" which means not A-Z.

Answer 2

thanks for your explanation!