If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into regex in Python. It lets you describe patterns instead of writing ...
Abstract: Regular expressions (regexes) are a denial of service vector in most mainstream programming languages. Recent empirical work has demonstrated that up to 10% of regexes have super-linear ...
Abstract: A Regular Expression, often abbreviated as Regex, are a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. An Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) is a computational machine which can ...
Quick: If you shout "regular expressions" in a crowd of Linux users, what happens? Answer: Everyone will tell you the right way to use them, and every answer will be different. Regular expressions -- ...
FilteredRE2 (and regex-filtered) show amazing results on ua-parser work load, however if for some reason they're not available (or they're missed) users are stuck with the horror show that is ...
An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...
I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...
Users often create weak and easily guessed passwords they reuse across systems and websites. As a result, traditional passwords are often the weakest link in the security of business-critical ...