Alan Gauld wrote at 06:00 10/12/2005: > > See Also:Mastering Regular Expressions Book on regular expressions by > > Jeffrey Friedl, published by O'Reilly. The second edition of the book no > > longer covers Python at all, but the first edition covered writing good > > regular expression patterns in great detail. " > > > > So I'd like to ask if there is agreement about the value of this book, > >This is the bible of regular expressions, without peer. > > > and if the 1st is really better that the 2nd ed. for regex in Python. > >DEbateable, the second covers some more modern additions to the RE catalog >but misses Python out. The first inclyudes Python but misses the >atest/greatest. >Either edition is invaluable, you only need one so if you have the first >don't >worry about getting the second IMHO.
Thanks for the advice. > > further information and a gentler presentation, consult the Regular > > Expression HOWTO, accessible from > > <http://www.python.org/doc/howto/>http://www.python.org/doc/howto/."; > >If you want an even gentler intro - really an intro to the intro - look at >the >RE page on my tutorial. It covers the very basic concepts. Looks great! http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld The regex HOWTO, above, mentions, in section 3.3, a tool that comes with Python 2.4 for practicing/testing regex. Tools/scripts/redemo.py . Can you recommend this? And how about Kodos? (<http://kodos.sourceforge.net/>) Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
