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Re: How to decipher :re.split(r"(\(\([^)]+\)\))" in the example

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Date Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:15:16 -0700
From Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com>
Subject Re: How to decipher :re.split(r"(\(\([^)]+\)\))" in the example
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----- Original Message -----

> From: Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
> To: fl <rxjwg98@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 <rxjwg98@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.

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How to decipher :re.split(r"(\(\([^)]+\)\))" in the example fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2014-07-10 08:37 -0700
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  Re: How to decipher :re.split(r"(\(\([^)]+\)\))" in the example Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> - 2014-07-10 12:15 -0700
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