from typing import Optional, Set import re # Match multi-word string between @** ** or match any one-word # sequences after @ find_mentions = r'(? bool: return mention in wildcards def extract_name(s: str) -> Optional[str]: if s.startswith("**") and s.endswith("**"): name = s[2:-2] if name in wildcards: return None return name # We don't care about @all, @everyone or @stream return None def possible_mentions(content: str) -> Set[str]: matches = re.findall(find_mentions, content) names_with_none = (extract_name(match) for match in matches) names = {name for name in names_with_none if name} return names def extract_user_group(matched_text: str) -> str: return matched_text[1:-1] def possible_user_group_mentions(content: str) -> Set[str]: matches = re.findall(user_group_mentions, content) return {extract_user_group(match) for match in matches}