I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...

How to use the regular expression functions provided by the ‘re’ library to match, search, and replace text in your Python programs. Regular expressions, or “regex,” is a system for finding complex ...

Below, I will roughly follow how I arranged the lecture on regular expressions, while also providing the relevant functions in the code. A regular expression is equivalent to some finite automaton.

rure is the Python binding Rust's regex library, which guarantees linear time searching using finite automata. In exchange, it must give up some common regex features such as backreferences and ...