[Tutor] Re: Speaking of regular expressions

Magnus Lycka magnus@thinkware.se
Fri Nov 22 03:21:01 2002


At 21:53 2002-11-21 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
>"Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl, published by
>O'Reilly.
>
>The book is a bit dated now (for example the python-specific parts
>refer to the 'regex' module which predates the 're' module)

Really?

The second edition is from July 2002. The book is fairly Perl centric,
but it seems that the author noticed the change in python.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/07/15/regexp.html?page=2

I haven't read the book though, and I couldn't find any *conclusive*
evidence that the Python coverage is up to date. Does anyone else know?


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