[Tutor] advice on regex matching for dates?
John Fouhy
john at fouhy.net
Thu Dec 11 23:45:56 CET 2008
On 12/12/2008, spir <denis.spir at free.fr> wrote:
> I just found a simple, but nice, trick to make regexes less unlegible.
> Using substrings to represent sub-patterns. E.g. instead of:
[...]
Another option is to use the re.VERBOSE flag. This allows you to put
comments in your regular expression and use whitespace for formatting.
See this article for an example:
http://diveintopython.org/regular_expressions/verbose.html
HTH!
--
John.
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