Leverage regular expressions in Python even for the most complex features
About This Book
Who This Book Is For
This book is aimed at Python developers who want to learn how to leverage Regular Expressions in Python. Basic knowledge of Python is required for a better understanding.
What You Will Learn
In Detail
Regular expressions are used by many text editors, utilities, and programming languages to search and manipulate text based on patterns. They are considered the Swiss army knife of text processing. Powerful search, replacement, extraction and validation of strings, repetitive and complex tasks are reduced to a simple pattern using regular expressions.
Mastering Python Regular Expressions will teach you about Regular Expressions, starting from the basics, irrespective of the language being used, and then it will show you how to use them in Python. You will learn the finer details of what Python supports and how to do it, and the differences between Python 2.x and Python 3.x.
The book starts with a general review of the theory behind the regular expressions to follow with an overview of the Python regex module implementation, and then moves on to advanced topics like grouping, looking around, and performance.
You will explore how to leverage Regular Expressions in Python, some advanced aspects of Regular Expressions and also how to measure and improve their performance. You will get a better understanding of the working of alternators and quantifiers. Also, you will comprehend the importance of grouping before finally moving on to performance optimization techniques like the RegexBuddy Tool and Backtracking.
Mastering Python Regular Expressions provides all the information essential for a better understanding of Regular Expressions in Python.
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Félix López is a software developer. He started in web development and moved to software in the currency exchange market, where there were a lot of security challenges. Later, he spent four years doing an IDE to develop mobile video games for hundreds of different mobile device OS variations and doing video games too. He s currently working for ShuttleCloud, a US-based startup whose technologies are used by companies like Stanford, Harvard, and Google.
Victor Romero currently works as a solutions architect at MuleSoft, Inc. He started his career in the dot-com era and has been a regular contributor to open source software ever since. Originally from the sunny city of Malaga, Spain, his international achievements include integrating the applications present in the cloud storage of a skyscraper in New York City and creating networks for an Italian government license in Rome.
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