Learn Python Regular Expressions step by step from beginner to advanced levels
Learn Python Regular Expressions step-by-step from beginner to advanced levels with hundreds of examples and exercises. The standard library re
and the third-party regex
module are covered in this book. Visit https://youtu.be/2x2n7ynamm8 for a short video about the book.
The book also includes exercises to test your understanding, which are presented together as a single file in this repo — Exercises.md
For solutions to the exercises, see Exercise_solutions.md.
You can also use this interactive TUI app to practice most of the exercises from the book.
See Version_changes.md to keep track of changes made to the book.
For a preview of the book, see sample chapters
The book can also be viewed as a single markdown file in this repo. See my blogpost on generating pdfs from markdown using pandoc if you are interested in the ebook creation process.
For the web version of the book, visit https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_regular_expressions/
I love your books on regex...As a student from the Digital VLSI space, it is indeed useful now and definitely in the future. It's really well written and really easy to understand the examples.
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related questionsSpecial thanks to Al Sweigart. His Automate the Boring Stuff book was instrumental for me to get started with Python.
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The code snippets are licensed under MIT, see LICENSE file.