How to decipher :re.split(r"(\(\([^)]+\)\))" in the example
Albert-Jan Roskam
fomcl at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 10 15:15:16 EDT 2014
----- Original Message -----
> From: Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com>
> To: fl <rxjwg98 at gmail.com>
> Cc: "python-list at python.org" <python-list at python.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:05 PM
> Subject: Re: How to decipher :re.split(r"(\(\([^)]+\)\))" in the example
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:37 AM, fl <rxjwg98 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This example is from the link:
>>
>> https://wiki.python.org/moin/RegularExpression
>>
>>
>> I have thought about it quite a while without a clue yet. I notice that it
> uses
>> double quote ", in contrast to ' which I see more often until now.
>
> Double quotes or single quotes -- doesn't matter.
>
>> It looks very complicated to me. Could you simplified it to a simple
> example?
>>
> You might read up first here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html
>
> If you are just new to learning python, regular expressions are not a
> good place to start. But if you insist, the page you are looking at
> is more of a cheat sheet .
The free sample chapter from Mark Summerfield's book is about regular expressions:
http://www.informit.com/content/images/9780321680563/samplepages/0321680561_Sample.pdf
That whole book is superb, and the regex chapter is no exception.
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