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Explore how to handle complex text manipulation in Python using regular expressions. Understand when to use them over basic string methods, and learn the syntax and capabilities of the re module for efficient pattern matching and text processing.
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Getting a small bit of text out of a large block of text is a challenge. In Python, strings have methods for searching and replacing: index(), find(), split(), count(), replace(), &c. But these methods are limited to the simplest of cases. For example, the index() method looks for a single, hard-coded substring, ...