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[xkcd] Regular Expressions (10 Jan 2007)
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Learning basic regex takes less than a day. Learning extended regex takes a day or two.
If you're often writing Python scripts to scan strings and match patterns, I can almost guarantee you're actually wasting more of your time avoiding having to use regex.
In fact, if you're working with large datasets, you're wasting even more time waiting for your scripts to finish. Python's regular expression engine is written in C, which is considerably faster than plain Python.