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.. sectionauthor:: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
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This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to
those found in Perl. Both patterns and strings to be searched can be
-Unicode strings as well as 8-bit strings. The :mod:`re` module is
-always available.
+Unicode strings as well as 8-bit strings.
Regular expressions use the backslash character (``'\'``) to indicate
special forms or to allow special characters to be used without invoking
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second edition of the book no longer covers Python at all, but the first
edition covered writing good regular expression patterns in great detail.
- `Kodos <http://kodos.sf.net/>`_
- is a graphical regular expression debugger written in Python.
-
.. _re-syntax: