Note that search and replace typically makes use of some special features in regular expressions. The parenthetical part of the regex is what is called a “capture group,” which is a way to ...

A good book on regular expressions is Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl, ISBN 0596528124. It does not explicitly cover Python, but Python’s re module offers very similar ...

Remove parameters using regular expressions. The other option to remove parameters in Java or Python is to use a regular expression to delete the matching portion of the input string. This method is ...