Tutorial on advanced usage of Python's regular expression module with practice examples.

python_advanced_regex.py

# Author: Aaron Phalen | Twitter: @aaron_phalen | Email: [email protected]

# Summary:
#  A rudimentary understanding of regex expression (Regex) can take a programmer a long
#  ways with text manpulation.  However, only once the advanced concepts of
#  Regex is understood, can a programmer can increase the elegance and efficiency of code,
#  and thefore ultimately increasing programming output by virtues of specialization.

# Motivation:
#  I have been using regular expressions for a couple years in the most basics sense, and 
#  the need to broaden my regex scope of knowledge in this programming meta-language has
#  not needed until recently.  See advanced usage of Regex in various Python Django books, 
#  my interest has been piqued by the elegance and thus this gist!

import re