Show HN: I wrote a book on Python regular expressions

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Learn Python regular expressions with a free book and practice with exercises and cheatsheets

intermediate Published 8 Aug 2019
Action Steps
  1. Download the book 'Python re(gex)?' from Gumroad or Leanpub
  2. Explore the GitHub repository for code snippets and sample chapters
  3. Practice regular expressions using the exercises and cheatsheets provided
  4. Use pandoc and xelatex to generate PDFs for your own projects
  5. Apply regular expressions to real-world text processing tasks
Who Needs to Know This

Developers and data scientists can benefit from this resource to improve their text processing skills

Key Insight

💡 Regular expressions are a powerful tool for text processing in Python

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📚 Free book on Python regular expressions! 🎉 Download 'Python re(gex)?' and practice with exercises and cheatsheets 📊

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Learn Python regular expressions with a free book and practice with exercises and cheatsheets

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My book titled "Python re(gex)?" is free to download through this weekend [1][2] The book covers both 're' and 'regex' modules, has plenty of examples and chapters also have cheatsheets and exercises. Code snippets, exercises, sample chapters, etc are available on GitHub repo [3] I used pandoc+xelatex [4] to generate the pdf. [1] https://gumroad.com/l/py_regex [2] https://leanpub.com/py_regex [3] https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions [4] https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/customizing-pandoc/
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