Text Processing in Python - Mike Hendrickson

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Résumé :
Text Processing in Python describes techniques for manipulation of text using thePython programming language. At the broadest level, text processing is simplytaking textual information and doing something with it. This might berestructuring or reformatting it, extracting smaller bits of information from it,or performing calculations that depend on the text. Text processing is arguablywhat most programmers spend most of their time doing. Because Python isclear, expressive, and object-oriented it is a perfect language for doing textprocessing, even better than Perl. As the amount of data everywhere continuesto increase, this is more and more of a challenge for programmers. This book isnot a tutorial on Python. It has two other goals: helping the programmer getthe job done pragmatically and efficiently; and giving the reader anunderstanding - both theoretically and conceptually - of why what works worksand what doesn't work doesn't work. Mertz provides practical pointers and tipsthat emphasize efficent, flexible, and maintainable approaches to the textprocessingtasks that working programmers face daily.