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diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.tex b/Doc/howto/regex.tex index 87fdad2065..f9867aecb0 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.tex +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.tex @@ -33,11 +33,8 @@ This document is available from The \module{re} module was added in Python 1.5, and provides Perl-style regular expression patterns. Earlier versions of Python -came with the \module{regex} module, which provides Emacs-style -patterns. Emacs-style patterns are slightly less readable and -don't provide as many features, so there's not much reason to use -the \module{regex} module when writing new code, though you might -encounter old code that uses it. +came with the \module{regex} module, which provided Emacs-style +patterns. \module{regex} module was removed in Python 2.5. Regular expressions (or REs) are essentially a tiny, highly specialized programming language embedded inside Python and made @@ -1458,7 +1455,7 @@ Jeffrey Friedl's \citetitle{Mastering Regular Expressions}, published by O'Reilly. Unfortunately, it exclusively concentrates on Perl and Java's flavours of regular expressions, and doesn't contain any Python material at all, so it won't be useful as a reference for programming -in Python. (The first edition covered Python's now-obsolete +in Python. (The first edition covered Python's now-removed \module{regex} module, which won't help you much.) Consider checking it out from your library. |