Regular Expressions

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sun Feb 11 02:05:30 EST 2007


Geoff Hill wrote:
> What's the way to go about learning Python's regular expressions? I feel 
> like such an idiot - being so strong in a programming language but knowing 
> nothing about RE. 
> 
> 
In fact that's a pretty smart stance. A quote attributed variously to 
Tim Peters and Jamie Zawinski says "Some people, when confronted with a 
problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two 
problems."

regards
  Steve
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