Updated: 03/05/2002

Charming Python: Text processing in Python for beginners

Along with several other popular scripting languages, Python is an excellent tool for scanning and manipulating textual data. This article summarizes Python''s text processing facilities for the programmer new to Python. The article explains some general concepts of regular expressions and offers advice on when to use (or not use) regular expressions while processing text.

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