[Tutor] wiki madness grows one you like a brain fungus [regex refinements, re.sub() can take in a subst. function]

[Gregor Lingl]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry schrieb:

>>mayhaps we should start a thread on 'INTRODUCTION TO RE'? Anyone intrested
>>can hop in and participate in the confusion?
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>don't walk, run to your local bookstore and purchase O'Reilly's outstanding 
>book "Mastering Regular Expressions".  Take a week and give it a good read.  
>Every day after that will be a more productive one. Honest.
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>Yes it focuses on languages other than Python. 
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Hi!
Maybe Kirk should consider to buy David Mertz new "Textprocessing an 
Python". It focuses on
Python, has a large chapter on regular expressions and much material on 
other internet-related
issues of text processing. You can find the book's description, table of 
contents and more than
80 pages of a sample chapter in pdf-format here:

http://www.awprofessional.com/isapi/product_id~%7B5F1EAF18-40C5-4C46-9AC4-9CEF74BC3F0C%7D/catalog/product.asp

Hmmm, a bit long this url, it was the 3. entry of the results of a 
google-search for:
Addison Wesley David Mertz Text processing

Could very well meet the requirements of someone trying to reinvent and 
amend the wiki.
Regards, Gregor



> But in the end everyone uses a 
>variant of Perl5 regex.  Read for the way of thinking and the regex syntax, 
>just ignore the icky $%@&*.
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