How to use the regular expression functions provided by the ‘re’ library to match, search, and replace text in your Python programs.

A proposal under consideration by Python’s development team would finally bring pattern matching statements to the language.

If you work with text, you owe it to yourself to learn regular expressions, and Patterns can help you do that--as well as figure out exactly what your search patterns are capturing.

Chapter 12: Regular Expressions Python’ s Regular Expression Language The Regular Expression Module A regular expression is a compact notation for representing a collection of strings. What makes ...