Understanding Python regex

Understanding Python regex will help you learn Python Regular Expressions, a mini-programming language for all sorts of text processing needs. The book heavily leans on examples to present features of regular expressions one by one. It is recommended that you manually type each example and experiment with them.

Table of Contents

• Why is it needed?
• re introduction
• Anchors
• Alternation and Grouping
• Escaping metacharacters
• Dot metacharacter and Quantifiers
• Interlude: Tools for debugging and visualization
• Working with matched portions
• Character class
• Groupings and backreferences
• Interlude: Common tasks
• Lookarounds
• Flags
• Unicode
• regex module

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