-- We've veered off the road a bit the past few days, largely due to my dereliction in not throwing out trading ideas & tests thereof for consideration. But as long as we're stuck in the mud, and since there are many Python enthusiasts in the group: I just stumbled on http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ which is a free online version of Text Processing in Python by David Mertz http://snipurl.com/9s4b Don't know the merits of the book, but since the webpage itself is irritating to look at, here are the actual chapter urls : http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/intro.txt INTRODUCTION http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/chap1.txt PYTHON BASICS http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/chap2.txt BASIC STRING OPERATIONS http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/chap3.txt REGULAR EXPRESSIONS http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/chap4.txt PARSERS AND STATE-MACHINES http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/chap5.txt INTERNET TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/appendix_a.txt SHORT REVIEW OF PYTHON http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/appendix_b.txt DATA COMPRESSION PRIMER http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/appendix_c.txt UNDERSTANDING UNICODE http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/appendix_d.txt A STATE-MACHINE http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/glossary.txt GLOSSARY TERMS
