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Regular expressions in Python by example

Every time I come back to Python from the land of Perl here at work, I need to re-learn how to use regular expressions in Python, as it is, IMHO, quite a bit different from Perl. Rather than trawling through … Continue reading

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Catching up with Python

Am trying to catch up with Python where I left off years ago. <rant> What have they done to the language when I was gone? It is no longer the simple language as before. The decorator syntax looks so .. … Continue reading

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No RegEx in M$ World?

The other day I got an XLS file exported from a client’s Microsoft SQL Server. I had to import the data into MySQL, and I thought using CSV would be the right way. But there was a problem – the … Continue reading

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