Topics

• Getting started with Regular Expressions
• Parsing Command Line arguments
• Useful Regex Showcase
• Alternatives to switch statement from other languages
• List destructuring (aka packing and unpacking)
• When you should NOT use Regular Expressions

Examples

• Basic example with docopt
• Setting mutually exclusive arguments with argparse
• Using command line arguments with argv
• Custom parser error message with argparse
• Match an email address
• Use what the language offers: the if/else construct.
• Use a dict of functions
• Use class introspection
• Using a context manager
• Destructuring assignment
• Packing function arguments
• Unpacking function arguments
• Advanced example with docopt and docopt_dispatch
• Matching pairs (like parenthesis, brackets…)
• Simple string operations