Seems like criticising the manual is som kind of heresy. So be it. You know, the Re documentation contains many pages. Ufortunately I didn't dwell with the first introductory paragraph, I was trying to solve a particular problem. I'm not that used to looking for links to external sources in the manual either. Unable? I wasn't looking for a Howto in the manual. And frankly, 'python regex howto" in Google is quicker way.
Of course I cannot suggest a better place for the link. Writing technical documents always trigger the question: Who is the audience. I accept that I may not be the primary audience. If I should suggest anything, it would be that the examples section is expanded. Generally: I have got my experiences with the Python Manual over the the last 30 months Python beeing my preferred language. One of them is that I have to look elsewhere. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
