Regular Expressions

[Paul Rubin]

"John Machin" <sjmachin at lexicon.net> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> I suggest that you work through the re HOWTO
> http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/

Also remember Zawinski's law:
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/08/18/beware_regular_expressions