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Have you already started to use regular expressions? If so, then congratulations — you’re one of the rare coders who can work with text efficiently and easily.
But regexps offer functionality that many people don’t know about. This functionality makes it possible to really fine-tune the text patterns you’re describing and creating, searching for very specific text. In this course, we take a deep dive into these more complex topics, giving you the tools you’ll need in order to perform text-related tasks more quickly and efficiently.
The course assumes that you already know about such topics as metacharacters, character classes, and alternation. We go into such topics as grouping, capturing, replacing, greediness, and even lookahead/lookbehind. When you’re done with this course, you’ll have a sophisticated understanding of regular expressions in Python, and will have practiced using them on a variety of small projects.
If you aren’t careful, you might even find regular expressions to be fun!
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Reuven is a full-time Python trainer. In a given year, he teaches courses at companies in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and China — as well as to people around the world, via his online courses.
Reuven created one of the first 100 Web sites in the world just after graduating from MIT’s computer science department. He opened Lerner Consulting in 1995, and has been offering training services since 1996.
In 2020, Reuven published “Python Workout,” a collection of Python exercises with extensive explanations, published by Manning. He’s currently finishing edits on “Pandas Workout,” a similar collection of exercises using the “Pandas” library for data analytics.
Reuven’s free, weekly “Better developers” newsletter, about Python and software engineering, is read by more than 30,000 developers around the globe. His “Trainer weekly” newsletter is popular among people who give corporate training.
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Reuven’s monthly column appeared in Linux Journal from 1996 until the magazine’s demise in 2019. He was also a panelist on both the Business of Freelancing and Freelancers Show podcasts.
Reuven has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from MIT, and a PhD in learning sciences from Northwestern University. He lives in Modi’in, Israel with his wife and three children.
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