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Regular Expressions

While C's printf-style output formats, transformed into Python, are adequate for most output formatting jobs, C's scanf-style input formats are not very powerful. Instead of scanf-style input, Python offers Emacs-style regular expressions as a powerful input and scanning mechanism. Read the corresponding section in the Library Reference for a full description.


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