Recommend an E-book Meeting the Following Criteria (Newbie, Long)

[Veli-Pekka Tätilä]

andypurshottam at gmail.com wrote:
> I reccomend David Mertz's text:
> http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/
> Despite name its more that just text processing <snip>
I'll give that one a try, thanks. I guess it might be just the book as far 
as the text processing that I've used to doing in Perl goes. I'm also 
interested in parsing in general so again the material might be well 
applicable outside Python, too. Before you know the very basics, even 
parsing ordinary arithmetic seems like black magic. I've read bits and 
pieces about recursive descent parsers and hopefully Python does have some 
modules for rolling your own.

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With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila at mail.student.oulu.fi)
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