[Tutor] retrieve URLs and text from web pages

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Tue Jun 29 17:38:39 CEST 2010


Khawla Al-Wehaibi, 29.06.2010 17:12:
> I decided to go with Regular Expressions to modify the text. In the
> Python.org it is stated that they provide more options and flexibilty
> compared to strings  and their modules.

"their modules" referring to the "string" module and the string methods 
here, I assume.

Regular expressions are also a lot harder to read and get right, you'll 
see. They are an important tool in a programmers toolbox, so it's good to 
learn them, but it's also good to know when *not* to use them.

Stefan



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