15.4. Regular Expression Adventures
We will now run through an in-depth example of the different ways of using regular expressions for string manipulation. The first step is to come up with some code that actually generates some random (but-not-so-random) data on which to operate. In Example 15.2, we present gendata.py, a script which generates a data set. Although this program simply displays the generated set of strings to standard output, this output may very well be redirected to a test file.
CORE NOTE:32-bit Dates and “The End of Time”
Unix systems, as well as others, use architecture-size integers to represent the current time in seconds. Since most systems today are 32-bit, the total amount of time recognized by any platform using this ...
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