[Tutor] advice on regex matching for dates?

[John Fouhy]

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.