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> From: Joel Goldstick <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> > To: fl <rxjw...@gmail.com> > Cc: "python-list@python.org" <python-list@python.org> > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:05 PM > Subject: Re: How to decipher :re.split(r"(\(\([^)]+\)\))" in the example > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:37 AM, fl <rxjw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This example is from the link: >> >> https://wiki.python.org/moin/RegularExpression >> >> >> I have thought about it quite a while without a clue yet. I notice that it > uses >> double quote ", in contrast to ' which I see more often until now. > > Double quotes or single quotes -- doesn't matter. > >> It looks very complicated to me. Could you simplified it to a simple > example? >> > You might read up first here: https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html > > If you are just new to learning python, regular expressions are not a > good place to start. But if you insist, the page you are looking at > is more of a cheat sheet . The free sample chapter from Mark Summerfield's book is about regular expressions: http://www.informit.com/content/images/9780321680563/samplepages/0321680561_Sample.pdf That whole book is superb, and the regex chapter is no exception. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
