regular expressions

[ananth21]

can anyone suggest any good tutorial or any resource
to understand regular expressions,i am a beginner,
i have some idea on string formatting expressions and method calls, but having trouble with re

[bvdet]

There are several good resources on the internet. Here's one: Regular Expressions Tutorial
The thread Regex Question has additional information that may help you.

[ananth21]

here is what i found on regular expressions,ver y useful for a beginner

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/courses/PythonRE/PythonRE.pdf

after going through half of the material,at least now i can apply some patterns and there is also a good book on the same topic (o'reilly mastering regular expressions)

[papin]

kiki may help you. It's a regular expressions tester written in python, made for python.

[Ephexeve]

You should check the docs. It helps, maybe a few Regex cheat sheet.