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3rd November 2008 - Link Blog

Python gems of my own (via) Did you know you can pass 128 as a flag to Python’s re.compile() function to spit out a parse tree? I didn’t. re.compile(“pattern”, 128)

Posted 3rd November 2008 at 11:59 am

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