On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:23:57AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > I strongly agree, and this knowledge is portable. All of the *nix > tools, including shell, perl, and python, rely on regex > understanding. One can get along just fine in python without using regex. I'm living proof. Sure, the regex module lets you do neat one-liners, but I hate one-liners especially when I'm tired. Doug.