How do loose the /012

[Moshe Zadka]

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On 5 Oct 1999, Alex wrote:

> >>> import re
> >>> text=re.sub('\n','',text)
> >>> text=re.sub('\.','.\n',text)
> >>> print text

I will kindly remind everyone that this is Python, not Perl. Hence, we
should not go the tortureous RegEx route, when we have the (in Python,
more efficient) string way.

In particular, string.translate and string.replace would do just as well,
and you wouldn't have to escape your ".", either.

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